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contagion   (TTS Sound)

The noun contagion has 3 senses

• contagious disease, contagion -- (any disease easily transmitted by contact)


• infection, contagion, transmission -- (an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted)


• contagion, infection -- (the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry")