See Also: contagion(medicine)
immediate contagion(medicine)
Contagion(money)
contagion(dictionary)
contagion(dictionary)
mediate contagion(medicine)
psychic contagion(medicine)

contagion (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin contagio, from contingere; CONTINGENT1]
[U] technical a situation in which a disease is spread by people touching each other
::The danger of contagion is very small.
[C] technical a disease that can be passed from person to person by touch
[singular] formal a feeling or attitude that spreads quickly between people or places
::a contagion of fear that spread from city to city