Synonyms:
contagion, infection
Meaning: the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
Synonyms:
infection, contagion, transmission
Meaning: an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
Synonyms:
contagious_disease, contagion
Meaning: any disease easily transmitted by contact
Usage examples
With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.
The sick were avoided from the fear of contagion, and for the same reason the dead were left unburied.
The taint of slavery, the contagion of a plague they had not quite escaped, was on the people of Illinois.
One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy.
And as to those mortal feuds which, in certain conjunctures, spread a conflagration through a whole nation, or through a very large proportion of it, proceeding either from weighty causes of discontent given by the government or from the contagion of some violent popular paroxysm, they do not fall within any ordinary rules of calculation.