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		colechristensen 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died morbid curiosity literally curiosity about disease and death I'm not sure what you think "morbid" means.

i_am_jl 31 days ago [–]

"Morbid" indicates that the curiosity about disease and death is unhealthy.

Describing a university course on infectious disease as "morbid" would be incorrect.

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