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Morbid vs Discutient - What's the difference?

morbid | discutient |

As adjectives the difference between morbid and discutient

is that morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease while discutient is (medicine) serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.

As a noun discutient is

an agent, such as a medicinal application, that serves to disperse morbid matter.

morbid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (originally) Of, or relating to disease.
  • Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
  • Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
  • Grisly or gruesome.

    • Derived terms

    * morbidity * morbidly * morbidness

    Related terms

    * morbidezza * morbilous

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to disease) pathological * (unhealthy or unwholesome) sick, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped * (suggesting the horror of death) black, ghoulish, grim, macabre * bloody, disgusting, gory, grisly, gruesome, sickening

    discutient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
    • a discutient application

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An agent, such as a medicinal application, that serves to disperse morbid matter.
  • * Wiseman
    • Foment with discutients .
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