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Meaning of contagion

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  contagion
      n 1: any disease easily transmitted by contact [syn: {contagious
           disease}, {contagion}]
      2: an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
         [syn: {infection}, {contagion}, {transmission}]
      3: the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a
         number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of
         his enthusiasm for poetry" [syn: {contagion}, {infection}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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