Contagion

ahd-5
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact.
  • noun. A disease that is or may be transmitted by direct or indirect contact; a contagious disease.
  • noun. The direct cause, such as a bacterium or virus, of a communicable disease.
  • noun. The spread of a behavior pattern, attitude, or emotion from person to person or group to group through suggestion, propaganda, rumor, or imitation.
  • noun. A harmful, corrupting influence.
  • noun. The tendency to spread, as of a doctrine, influence, or emotional state.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Infectious contact or communication; specifically and commonly, the communication of a disease from one person or brute to another.
  • noun. Hence The communication of a state of feeling, particularly of moral feeling, or of ideas, from one person to another; especially, the communication of moral evil; propagation of mischief; infection: as, the contagion of enthusiasm; the contagion of vice or of evil example.
  • noun. Contagium.
  • noun. Pestilential influence; malarial or poisonous exhalations.
  • noun. A contagious disease.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
  • noun. That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
  • noun. The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart.
  • noun. Venom; poison.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A disease spread by contact
  • noun. The spread or transmission of such a disease
  • noun. The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
  • noun. A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
  • noun. A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
  • noun. an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
  • noun. any disease easily transmitted by contact
  • Word Usage
    "Also, the euro debt - again, we hear the term contagion - has the possibility of affecting everything economic, not just solar."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cajun  Trajan  cajun  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    infection  poison  venom