meaning of contagion
1. The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
2. 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.
3. The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
4. Venom; poison.
5. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for
">poetry"
Related Words
contagion | contagioned | contagionist |
