different between soreness vs morbidity

English

Etymology

From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English s?rnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), equivalent to sore +? -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian s?rnisse, s?rnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).

Noun

soreness (usually uncountable, plural sorenesses)

1. The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

   The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.

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Anagrams

• roseness

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

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See also

• soreness
• valetudinarianism