Synonyms of the word

infection

• n. (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
• n. An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.

communication

• n. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
• n. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
• n. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
• n. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
• n. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
• n. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
• n. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
• n. (obsolete) Association; company.
• n. Participation in Holy Communion.
• n. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says…

contagion

• n. A disease spread by contact.
• n. The spread or transmission of such a disease.
• n. The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease.
• n. (finance) A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions…
• n. (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.

corruption

• n. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted…
• n. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization,…
• n. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
• n. The decomposition of biological matter.
• n. The seeking of bribes.
• n. (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental…
• n. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
• n. (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding,…
• n. Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

corruptness

• n. The state of being corrupt.

illegality

• n. (law) The state of being illegal.
• n. (law, uncountable) A defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law.

incident

• n. An event or occurrence.
• n. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
• n. An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis.
• n. In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury.
• adj. Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
• adj. (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
• adj. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design;…
• adj. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
• adj. (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

transmission

• n. The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
• n. The fact of being transmitted.
• n. Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
• n. (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
• n. (automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft…
• n. (law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy,…
• n. (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to…

unhealthiness

• n. The state of being unhealthy.