morbidity
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The incidence or prevalence of disease in a population.
The drug cut morbidity without extending life.
Business noun
The incidence or prevalence of illness within a population, used to price health and disability cover.
Worsening morbidity among older policyholders pushed up the cost of critical-illness benefits.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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