Dictionary Entry
contagion
contagion is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
- 2noun
That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
- 3noun
The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
- 4noun
Venom; poison.
- 5noun
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
"a contagion of mirth"
"the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
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- 6noun
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
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- 7noun
any disease easily transmitted by contact
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