contagion

Nouns

  • (n) any disease easily transmitted by contact contagious disease,
  • (n) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted infection, transmission,
  • (n) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
    • a contagion of mirth
    • the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry
    infection,

Synonyms

contagious disease infection transmission

Words of close approximity