Definitions for contagion

contagion con·ta·gion

Spelling: [kuh n-tey-juh n]
IPA: /kənˈteɪ dʒən/

Contagion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in contagion (acginnoot).

Definitions for contagion

noun

  1. the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.
  2. a disease so communicated.
  3. the medium by which a contagious disease is transmitted.
  4. harmful or undesirable contact or influence.
  5. the ready transmission or spread as of an idea or emotion from person to person:

Origin of contagion

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin contāgiōn- (stem of contāgiō) contact, infection, equivalent to con- con- + tāg- (variant stem of tangere to touch) + -

Examples for contagion

In addition, the protests had been largely contained to very specific areas and the fear of contagion never materialized.

Further, the contagion effect of suicide and the resultant attention to it is a well-documented phenomenon.

The old sores which are bathed have nothing to fear, and offer no risk of contagion.

When the cure is effected, let the clothes be carefully fumigated with sulphur, or the contagion will again be communicated.

But although desire cannot be imparted by argument, it can be by contagion.

As scary as contagion can seem, nobody should be panicking, no matter which virus happens to be making the headlines.

I see already that from the world, vile as it is, you have nothing of contagion to fear.

The very spectacle of that form which I had learned to love is mildew and contagion to my eyes.

He had caught the contagion of her mood and vague alarm swept him.

In fact, we have been inoculated from the experience of contagion.

Word Value for contagion
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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