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    [Noun]  | "con*ta*gion" | \ kən-ˈtā-jən \


    1: a contagious disease

    2: the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact

    3: a disease-producing agent (such as a virus)


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English contagioun, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French contagiun, borrowed from Latin contāgiōn, contāgiō "contact, contact resulting in disease, infection, pollution," from contag-, variant stem of contingere "to be in contact with, arrive at, affect, fall to one's lot" + -iōn-, -iō, suffix of action nouns formed from compound verbs {mat|contingent:1|};

      * Note : The vowel length in contāgiō is unexpected and difficult to explain; a similarly lengthened vowel is found in other deverbal derivatives with -ag- as a second member (compāgēs "bond, joint," from pangere,ambāgēs "circuitous path," from agere; see: {agent|agent}, {pact|pact}).;

    [Noun]  | "contagion" 


    1: sickness that can be passed from one person, plant, or animal to another;


      * e.g., " ... The rumors spread like a contagion. "





     [ "contagion" ]

    1: (v) to go to extreme measures to avoid getting sick as in wearing a gas mask.

      * e.g.,  ... *cough cough cough* Are you sick? I'm about to go contagion on your ass. 

     [ "Contagion" ]

    1: A group of anti-vaxxers

      * e.g.,  ... A contagion has gathered at the park to spread measles to each other. 

     [ "Contagion" ]

    1: Collective noun that describes a gathering of people during the COVID19 pandemic

      * e.g.,  ... The police would have to daily disperse the contagions on the beaches throughout the Spring of 2020. 

     [ "Contagion" ]

    1: A cool guy that plays video games.

      * e.g.,  ... That Contagion owns all the hardcore ladies while playing video games, but still keeps the one main honey. 


     [ "Contagion" ]

    2: Owns all the hardcore ladies.


     [ "Contagion" ]

    3: But still keeps the one main honey.

     [ "Asian Contagion" ]

    1: A strong attraction to Asian women. It may be either short lived or a chronic condition.

      * e.g.,  ... That bar last night gave me the Asian Contagion. That place was Thai heaven! 

     [ "Group Contagion" ]

    1: Certain ideas or attributes of a subject are eventually spread to others in the group. Group Contagion effect is a result of Syndrome E.

      * e.g.,  ... Group Contagion effect can be seen in Germany during the 3rd Riech under Hitler's rule. 

     [ "(AAC) or Asian Aphasian Contagion" ]

    1: An expansion of the condition 'aphasia' which implies an affliction where the sufferer experiences loss of ability to articulate ideas, thus elaborated more precisely to define that which individuals living in Tibetan China are experiencing current under Chinese rule.

      * e.g.,  ... Jane: "Did you hear that YouTube & Google were down over the weekend in Tibet? I don't know what's going on with the protests!" 

     [ "Social contagion" ]

    1: Everything is a social contagion to you people, Jesus Christ!

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "Not everything a social contagion! Holy shit what is WRONG with you people!? This is NOTHING MORE than 'the failure of the people who could have done otherwise.' That's it. HIDING THEIR SHAME. Trying to sweep this under the rug. It isn't a social contagion. It isn't a syndrome. It's YOU refusing acknowledge what is happening to ME and those people." 

     [ "Contagion deniers" ]

    1: People who ignorantly believe that governments are overreacting to the covid-19 pandemic.

      * e.g.,  ... It's 3/20/20 and I'm in Colorado, surrounded by contagion deniers. When the Tsunami of sick hits by the first week of April, contagion deniers won't exist, just sorry people who didn't practiçe social distancing when it mattered. 

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