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Noun morbidity has 3 senses

deathrate, death rate, morbidity, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate - the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
--₁ is a kind of rate
--₁ has particulars:
infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate; neonatal mortality, neonatal mortality rate
morbidity - the relative incidence of a particular disease
--₂ is a kind of incidence, relative incidence
unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
--₃ is a kind of quality
--₃ has particulars:
harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness; perniciousness, toxicity; deadliness, lethality; jejunity, jejuneness; putrescence, rottenness; unhealthfulness