different between contagion vs imitation

English

Etymology

From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin cont?gi? (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to conting? (“touch closely”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?te?d??n/
• Rhymes: -e?d??n

Noun

contagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)

1. A disease spread by contact.
2. The spread or transmission of such a disease.

   Synonym: infection

3. (figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
   1. (finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
      • 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:

        And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

4. (finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• quarantine
• Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cognation

French

Etymology

From Latin cont?gi?.

Noun

contagion f (plural contagions)

1. contagion

Related terms

• contagieux

Further reading

• “contagion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French imitacion, from Latin imitatio

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imitation (countable and uncountable, plural imitations)

1. The act of imitating.
2. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.

   imitation leather

Antonyms

• (act of imitating): creation

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin imit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.ta.sj??/

Noun

imitation f (plural imitations)

1. imitation

Related terms

• imiter

Further reading

• “imitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).