different between morbific vs morbidity

English

Alternative forms

• morbifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

Adjective

morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)

1. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 240:

     He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.

2. Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. [from 17th c.]

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of mori (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

Noun

morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)

1. The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
2. The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
3. (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
4. (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
5. (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
6. (demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population.

Synonyms

• morbidness
• unwholesomeness

Derived terms

• comorbidity

Related terms

• morbidezza
• morbific
• morbidly
• morbific
• morbilli

Translations

See also

• soreness
• valetudinarianism