Meanings
plural morbosities
- countableuncountableA diseased state; unhealthiness.
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For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.
1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - countableuncountablea morbid feature
Origin
- Latinmorbositas
- Englishmorbosity
Latin morbositas.
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Spanish morbosidad
- morbosidadTranslations
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morbosity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morbosity
“morbosity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morbosity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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