Antonyms 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

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1. • Communication
   • Incident

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

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1. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   virus, infection, contagium

How to use contagion in a sentence?

1. Luca Paolini:

   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.

2. Ting Lu:

   The possibility of contagion in other parts of China's vast economy remains very real, and, it is on this issue where China's central bank faces its biggest constraint — while it may be able to contain the financial implications from a housing default, it can not offset the housing market's impact on China's real economy.

3. England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe:

   We're not seeing signs of that at the moment. Financial markets are not showing there is contagion or spreading of those risks to the periphery.

4. David Katz:

   There is still too much we don't know about this contagion to take anything for granted, we should verify every inference with empirical data. So, first out are those presumed to be at lowest risk -- good health, under age 50 -- and then others back in waves, once it is clear that severe infection rates are as low as projected.

5. Chief Executive Geoff Drabble:

   People are trying to make an awful lot more out of the contagion of oil and gas and pressure of energy prices, I think its massively overdone as witnessed by these results, (In construction) we're seeing lots of projects continuing to start.

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