morbid
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/ˈmɔːrbɪd/
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/ˈmɔːbɪd/
Having a fascination with sad or unpleasant things, like sickness or death.
She had a morbid fascination with crime stories.
Related to disease.
The doctor had a morbid interest in the spread of the virus.