contagion
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contagion
- /kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/
Rhymes with -eɪdʒən
Where it comes from
From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
noun contagions
- A disease spread by contact. He is plague-stricken, surrounded by a poisonous atmosphere, infected by a contagion of death; his very touch may blight the earth.
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The spread or transmission of such a disease.
Similar: infection
- The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household. It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their
- The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy. And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.
- A recession or crisis developed in such manner.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: infection, transmission, contagious disease, communicable, disease, contamination, spillover, propagation, outbreak, spread, exposure, aggregation, infections, epidemic, plague, communicability
Translations
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noun disease spread by contact
| Français | contagion |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | ansteckende Krankheit |
| Italiano | contagio |
noun transmission of a contagious disease
| Español | contagio |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 전염 jeonyeom |
| 日本語 | 伝染 densen |
| 中文 | 傳染 /传染 chuánrǎn |
| हिन्दी | छूत chūt |
| Português | contágio |
| Français | contagion |
| Deutsch | Ansteckung |
| Italiano | contagio |
| Ελληνικά | μεταδοτική ασθένεια metadotikí asthéneia |
| Română | contagiune |
| Русский | инфе́кция infékcija, зара́зная боле́знь zaráznaja boléznʹ, зара́за zaráza |
Talk about this word "contagion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/contagion. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. contagion. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/contagion "contagion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/contagion.Cite this
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title = {contagion},
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year = {2026},
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