Communicability

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted, as by contact or intercourse.
  • noun. In logic, capability of being common to several things. Thus, the characteristics of the sun, though peculiar to that luminary, possess communicability, inasmuch as there might be two suns.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being communicable
  • Word Usage
    "And they say that the disease, the TB that he has at this stage of the game, is of low communicability, meaning it's difficult to spread."