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morbidness

morbidness

8.8
An unhealthy interest in sad or frightening things
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔrbɪdnəs/
translation icon : morbilidad
  • Stop this morbidness.

Examples

  • It's just morbidness, VirgiI.

    Alice Adams (1935)

  • Unfortunately, morbidness and confusion were all it generated.

    Blog text (24)

  • All this is a reaction against overstrain which the middle-aged can remember, but it is a reaction which Catholic thought cannot accept; and the best way to revive the sense of sin while escaping unreality and morbidness is the Church's way of resolute social shame.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Her morbidness about death often made conversations with her quite uncomfortable.

  • The morbidness of the novel highlighted the protagonist's disturbing fascination with crime.

  • His morbidness led him to collect old newspapers reporting tragic events.

Synonyms

morbidity
vsmorbidness
1 8.4

A gloomy interest in sad or upsetting things

is a general tendency toward unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects
ghoulishness
vsmorbidness
  • NSFW
1 8.8

A disturbing interest in death and suffering

is broader and less cruel covering interest in unpleasant subjects

Antonyms

vitality
29 4.3

Energy and liveliness that make a person or thing seem active

healthiness
1 1.6

Being well in body and mind

How Morbid

obsession
262 5.1
morbidness
8.8
curiosity
318 2.2

Surface Forms

morbidness singular
morbidnesses plural

Morphology

morbidness = morbid (transparent) = morbid + ness

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'morbid' with '-ness' indicating the state or quality.

Etymology

Morbidness comes from the Latin word morbus, which means 'disease' or 'sickness'. So morbidness is like a 'sick' interest — an unhealthy or disturbing liking for bad or sad things, which is why the word now means having an unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects.