Meaning Of The Word Contagion

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Contagion Meaning

Contagion Definition
Contagion Definition

What's The Definition Of Contagion?

contagion
You can use contagion to refer to the spreading of ideas, or attitudes, or feelings that you consider to be bad or unacceptable from one group of people to another.
countable noun: A contagion is a contagious disease.
uncountable noun: Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.

contagion in American English
the spreading of disease from one individual to another by direct or indirect contact
noun: the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact

contagion in British English
noun: the transmission of disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact

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