B2🧠 Personality
Italian word
morboso
morbid, unhealthily obsessive, unwholesome
Looks like
morbose / morbid
having a strong interest in unpleasant subjects; characteristic of disease
⚠️ The trap
Italian 'morboso' is also widely used to mean 'obsessively possessive' in relationships ('un amore morboso' = a toxic, smothering love). English 'morbid' doesn't carry this meaning.
To say "having a strong interest in unpleasant subjects; characteristic of disease" in Italian:
morboso (true cognate, but also means obsessively jealous or attached)
"morboso" in English means:
morbid, unhealthily obsessive, unwholesome
Example
"Ha una curiosità morbosa per i crimini violenti."
"He has a morbid curiosity about violent crimes."
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