contagion
Meaning of contagion
noun
- A disease spread by contact
- The spread or transmission of such a disease
- (by extension) the spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
- A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy
- A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner
Information about contagion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of contagion is: contagions.
- Languages in which contagion is used:
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Hyphenation of contagion
con-ta-gion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- contagion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
contagion synonyms
Meaning infection:
Translation of contagion
- German: Infektion, Ansteckung, Infizierung
- Spanish: infección, contagio
- French: infection, contamination
- Italian: infezione, contagio
- Portuguese: infecção
Anagrams of contagion
Words that rhyme with contagion
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