All contagion synonyms

noun contagion

• pollution — the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
• virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
• illness — unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
• contamination — the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
• pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
• transmission — the act or process of transmitting.
• taint — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
• venom — the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• miasma — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
• corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
• infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
• impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
• toxicity — the quality, relative degree, or specific degree of being toxic or poisonous: to determine the toxicity of arsenic.