Any disease easily transmitted by contact.

synonym: contagious disease.

Roget 657: insalubrity; unhealthiness etc. adj.; nonnaturals^†; plague spot; malaria etc. (poison) 663; death in the pot, contagion; toxicity.   

Dutch: besmetting

An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted.

synonyms: infection, transmission.

Roget 270: transfer, transference; translocation, elocation^†; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion^†, amotion^†; relegation; deportation, asportation^†; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer etc. (of property) 783.    transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage^†, carting, cartage; shoveling etc. v.; vection^†, vecture^†, vectitation^†; shipment, freight, wafture^†; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption^†, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion etc. 73; transposition etc. (interchange) 148; traction etc. 285.    [Thing transferred] drift.    ... show more

Dutch: besmetting, infectie
Polish: infekowanie, zarażanie

The communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people:
— A contagion of mirth.

synonym: infection.