Contagion Definition

kən-tājən
noun
The spreading of disease from one individual to another by direct or indirect contact.
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Any disease thus spread; contagious disease.
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The causative agent of a communicable disease; bacteria or virus.
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Contagious quality.
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The spreading of an emotion, idea, custom, etc. from person to person until many are affected.
The contagion of mirth.
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Other Word Forms of Contagion

Noun

Singular:
contagion
Plural:
contagions

Origin of Contagion

  • From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contagio (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingo (“touch closely”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English contagioun from Latin contāgiō contāgiōn- from contingere contāct- to touch contact

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Contagion Sentence Examples

  • It caught the contagion of poetry, philosophy and science.'

  • The contagion had spread through towns and villages and the open country, but it might still be stayed.

  • The earliest writers upon cholera emphasized its remarkable preference for particular places; and the history of each successive epidemic implies, besides an importation of the contagion, certain local conditions which may be either general sanitary defects or peculiarities of climate and soil.

  • The only good of man is the pure existence of the soul, which in itself, apart from the contagion of the body, is perfectly free from error or defect; if only it can be restored to the untrammelled activity of its original being, nothing external, nothing bodily, can positively impair its perfect welfare.

  • The danger of contagion lies in the wonderful vitality of the spores, and their great resistance to heat and cold.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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