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Definitions for Infection
[1] an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
[2] an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing.
[3] an infecting agency or influence.
[4] an infectious disease: Is this infection very dangerous?
[5] the condition of suffering an infection.
[6] corruption of another's opinions, beliefs, moral principles, etc.; moral contamination.
[7] an influence or impulse passing from one to another and affecting feeling or action.
[8] Grammar . (in Celtic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel; umlaut.
[9] invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
[10] the resulting condition in the tissues
[11] an infectious disease
[12] the act of infecting or state of being infected
[13] an agent or influence that infects
[14] persuasion or corruption, as by ideas, perverse influences, etc
Words related to Infection
disease, epidemic, virus, bug, pollution, flu, impurity, contagion, poison, corruption, defilement, germs, communicability, contagiousness, insanitation, septicity
Words nearby Infection
infauna, infeasible, infect, infected abortion, infectee, infection, infection immunity, infection-exhaustion psychosis, infectious, infectious anemia of horses, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
Origin of Infection
1350–1400; Middle English infeccio(u)n < Late Latin infectiōn- (stem of infectiō ). See infect, -ion
Words that may be confused with Infection
Other words from Infection
non·in·fec·tion , noun
post·in·fec·tion , adjective
pre·in·fec·tion , noun
re·in·fec·tion , noun
sub·in·fec·tion , noun
Synonyms for Infection
bug, disease, epidemic, flu, pollution, virus, contagion, corruption, defilement, germs, impurity, poison, communicability, contagiousness, insanitation, septicity, what's going around