contagious vs infectious
Definitions
adjective
- easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Examples
They were susceptible to coughs and allergies and heaves and a highly contagious condition called strangles, in which pus discharges from the nostrils, and abscesses form in the lymph nodes under the jaw and sometimes burst.
Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.
Scarlet fever is highly contagious.
Definitions
adjective
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- easily spread
- of or relating to infection
Examples
And the thing is, the resulting cartoonish anarchy is infectious.
The inflammatory infiltrate raised the possibility of an infectious granulomatous disease or a conventional diverticular abscess.
Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.
