Synonyms for contagion
kənˈteɪ dʒəncon·ta·gion

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1. contagion

   Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.

   Synonyms:
   infection

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. contagious disease, contagionnoun

   any disease easily transmitted by contact

   Synonyms:
   contagious disease, infection, transmission

2. infection, contagion, transmissionnoun

   an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, transmittal, infection, transmitting, transmission system

3. contagion, infectionnoun

   the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

   "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, infection

Matched Categories

1. • Communication
   • Incident

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   infection

2. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contamination, taint

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1. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   virus, infection, contagium

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1. List of paraphrases for "contagion":

   infection, spill-over, spillover, spread, transmission, contamination

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How to use contagion in a sentence?

1. Thornton:

   Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

2. Luca Paolini:

   The economic weight of China is much, much bigger than its financial weight, i wouldn't put Chinese financial market volatility as the main risk for this year but if there's contagion from the Chinese economy to the U.S. and European economies, that's a much more dangerous development.

3. James Scott:

   The narrative illusion introduces a “mind virus”, which is a syntactical contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonizes the cognitive biases of the targeted individual’s psychology, thus transforming the mental processes of that target.

4. Hiroshi Nishiura:

   We have not been able to clearly contain the contagion from the first wave.

5. Ilan Solot:

   This is brinkmanship. In the end, everybody will probably be sensible but there's a risk of a policy mistake. Part of the problem is both sides feel emboldened, greece is in a better economic situation than it was before ... and the government has a strong mandate from the people to change. But the EU is emboldened too because there are a lot more backstops than before, the ESM is in place, and you can see the contagion is so much smaller. Spanish and Italian yields hardly moved in this crisis.