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Contagiousness vs Contagion - What's the difference?

contagiousness | contagion |

As nouns the difference between contagiousness and contagion

is that contagiousness is the state or condition of being contagious while contagion is a disease spread by contact.

contagiousness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or condition of being contagious.

    • Synonyms

    * contagiosity

    See also

    * infectiosity * infectiousness

    contagion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A disease spread by contact
  • The spread or transmission of such a disease
  • The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
  • (finance) 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.
  • * 2011 , , Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro :
    • And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.
  • (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.

    • Derived terms

    * anticontagion * contagionism * contagionist

    See also

    * quarantine * (Contagious disease) ----