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What is the noun for contagiousness?

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contact
  1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  2. The establishment of communication (with).
  3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  4. Someone with whom one is in communication.
  5. (informal) A contact lens.
  6. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  7. (ellipsis) Contact juggling.
  8. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “The egg would immediately begin to cook after coming into contact with the hot pan.”
      “He was a private person who rarely had contact with members of the public.”
      “You will be provided with a personal contact who will assist you with any inquiries you may have.”
contagion
  1. A disease spread by contact.
  2. The spread or transmission of such a disease.
  3. The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease.
  4. (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.
  5. (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The contagion was spread almost exclusively among the hospital staff, in whom the disease lay latent for the month of July.”
      “If you do not stop the contagion of vice, they will swarm in your streets, and prowl about your dwellings, and pilfer from you ten times the amount you would need to give to render them useful and happy.”
      “Secondly, trials using viral vectors occasionally present risks to the public through transmission of transgenes or contagion.”
contactee
  1. A person who is contacted by someone.
  2. (ufology) A person who claims to have been contacted by alien beings from outer space.
  3. Examples:
    1. “A contactee in Argentina came forward last week with an incredible story.”
      “Basically, a large part of the UFO lore is subjective and many alleged UFO events are actually the products of a complex hallucinatory process, particularly in the contactee.”
contagium
  1. (obsolete) contagion; contagious matter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Dutch botanist Martinus Bijerinck called this infectious fluid contagium vivum fluidum.”
      “Because it never matters until we're waist deep in the lukewarm contagium known as an election year.”
      “It does not follow that the contagium is the sole cause in every case in which it is present.”
contactomorphism
  1. (mathematics) An isomorphism in the contact category.
contagiousness
  1. The state or condition of being contagious.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Among his discoveries is that of the contagiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis.”
      “Antibiotics shorten the period of contagiousness to 5 days following the start of antibiotic treatment.”
      “The models also included information about the flu virus, such as the possible contagiousness of an infected person.”
contactomorphisms
  1. plural of contactomorphism
contactees
  1. plural of contactee
contagions
  1. plural of contagion
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In perhaps the oddest twist of all, this most ferocious of contagions simply went away of its own accord, never to be seen again.”
      “Deforestation and other radical ecosystem alterations also promote diseases, such as malaria and cholera, as well as new strains of existing contagions.”
      “Architects believed that sunlight, fresh air and uncluttered living spaces would banish the contagions of tuberculosis and flu.”
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