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MORBIDITY
Definition of MORBIDITY
noun
The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
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Where it comes from
Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MORBIDITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 271 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MORBIDITY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BDIIMORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start MORBID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found MORBIDITY?
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