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Contentious vs Contagion - What's the difference?

contentious | contagion |

As an adjective contentious

is marked by heated arguments or controversy.

As a noun contagion is

a disease spread by contact.

contentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.}}
  • Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * contentiously * contentiousness

    Related terms

    * contend * contender * contention

    References

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    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) ----