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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1. Judah Fierstein:

   From a contagion standpoint, the very first days of the illness, and even the day before, is the time where you don't want to have your desk partner next to you.

2. Frances Donald:

   A 2008-like financial contagion is not yet priced into this market.

3. Paul Offit:

   My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.

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. Karen Petrou:

   Another week or so of growing COVID-19 contagion, canceled events, foregone travel and shuttered businesses will lead to waves of delinquent debt from Americans with no other choice, one longstanding lesson of economic history is that liquidity crises descend into solvency debacles if not quickly resolved.