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Morbidity vs Moribund - What's the difference?

morbidity | moribund |

As nouns the difference between morbidity and moribund

is that morbidity is the quality of being unhealthful, morbid, sometimes including the cause while moribund is a person who is near to dying.

As an adjective moribund is

approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.

morbidity

English

Noun

  • The quality of being unhealthful, morbid, sometimes including the cause.
  • (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
  • (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
  • (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * morbidness * unwholesomeness

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * morbidezza * morbific * morbidly * morbific * morbilli

    See also

    * soreness * valetudinarianism

    moribund

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.
  • Almost obsolete, nearing an end.

    • Derived terms

    * moribundity * moribundly * moribundness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is near to dying.