morbosity

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English

Etymology

Latin morbositas.

Noun

morbosity (countable and uncountable, plural morbosities)

  1. A diseased state; unhealthiness.
    • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “morbosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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