Adjective : a morbid interest in death. ,morbid anatomy. From Dictionary.com.
My morbidness is just ... waiting. From Wordnik.com. [War] Reference
A strong protest against "morbidness" was on her lips, but she did not speak it. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage à la mode] Reference
No, no, that is morbidness; such resignation is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
‘You out-Hamlet Hamlet in morbidness of mood,’ said. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
I understood there was a good deal of morbidness about at the time, sir. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Dark, murky, cloudy forms resulted from fear, morbidness and worry, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
For nothing is so sure an antidote to morbidness as the unspoiled mind of a child. From Wordnik.com. [Study of Child Life] Reference
Beyond this morbidness of misapprehension, there was no other morbidness in Hetty's state. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
Ivan's inheritance from his mother was a temperament sensitive to the point of morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Too much self-inspection leads to morbidness; too little, conducts to careless, hasty action. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
She was not handsome, and the meager sentiment of her soul easily disintegrated into morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
He died in 1631 after having furnished a striking instance of the fantastic morbidness of the period. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
For many months he had turned from the self-analysis which would finally have developed into morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Mrs. Weston took her sorrow in a fine way; she seemed to realize that she, of the two, must turn away the threat of morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
It was, perhaps, only morbidness that Ivan should have allowed the death of Sósha, a man of eighty-four, to affect him as it did. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
If Sally had been nervous or poetical, she would have been glad to recollect them; but no such morbidness invaded her healthy soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
In addition to his genius, his loneliness, and his morbidness, it must be taken into consideration that he knew nothing about women. From Wordnik.com. [THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD] Reference
She began to understand the delicacy of her companion's conduct, and the simplicity of the whole situation when stripped of morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
One thing only can be unreservedly inculcated: Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Ruth was the only bright spot she recognized in her life, and her morbidness was constantly picturing disaster for this object of her love. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
His personal character, despite some youthful morbidness, was unusually delightful, marked by courage, honesty, sympathy, and straightforward manliness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The morbidness, if there were any, was in the first entering into her mind of the belief that her husband's happiness could be secured in any way so well as by her. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
But never was poem freer from morbidness: it repels the sickly pallor of our modern stereotyped sorrow, and is made up only of a grief that is regal -- more -- divine. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In these moments he experienced a great feeling — the feeling of emancipation from the wearisome burden which had long oppressed his heart with grief and morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
A certain portion of the old morbidness returned to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
The trouble is, you rather enjoy a little irritation and morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Days of Heaven Upon Earth] Reference
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
The utter morbidness of such a thought oppressed her only for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [The New Tenant] Reference
I am not blue as I was and my morbidness has gone and I only get depressed at times. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
His morbidness fastened upon his mind like a parasite upon a tree, and the brain sickened. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Road] Reference
Sensitive to the extent of morbidness -- it was impossible for her to ignore the occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
He never gave countenance to morbidness, self-pity, or any kind of unwholesomeness in grief. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Friendships of Jesus] Reference
Shelton stared; but the charge of morbidness would not lie against this fresh-cheeked stripling. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Peter could see no excuse for such morbidness, such endless harping upon the horrible things of life. From Wordnik.com. [100\%: the Story of a Patriot] Reference
But in time I outgrew that morbidness, and realised that though Love is good, Life is the greatest gift of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistress of Shenstone] Reference
As he stood at his bureau taking out some necessary articles from a drawer he felt his old morbidness roll back over him like a wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Desired Woman] Reference
All her talk was about herself and her affairs; but it did not seem like egotism, because it was so cheerful and free from morbidness. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
There was no morbidness in Phoebe; if there had been, the old Pyncheon House was the very locality to ripen it into incurable disease. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Yet of morbidness he was often very tender; he knew it to be disease, something that must be scientifically rather than ethically treated. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
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