contagion
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any disease easily transmitted by contact
Types & categories
- communicable disease hypernym
- influenza hyponym
- measles hyponym
- diphtheria hyponym
- scarlet fever hyponym
- pox hyponym
- Vincent's angina hyponym
- STD hyponym
Related & opposite
- catching derivation
Sense 2 noun
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
Types & categories
- incident hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
a contagion of mirth
Types & categories
- communication hypernym
Related & opposite
- infect derivation
- infectious derivation
- contagious derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | catching |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | communicable disease |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | influenza |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | measles |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | diphtheria |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scarlet fever |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pox |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Vincent's angina |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | STD |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infect |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | transmit |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | catching |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | incident |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infect |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infectious |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contagious |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | communication |