communicability

Without that communicability, the discovery would have a strange status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

What we first notice in Koh and Tines is their extraordinary communicability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

The second wave, which exploded across the country in April and May, exposed both the Delta variant’s increased communicability and India’s inability to cope.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

The ostensible goal of these experiments—in which researchers manipulate already-dangerous pathogens to create or increase communicability among humans—is to develop tools to monitor the natural emergence of pandemic strains.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2014

P.S.—Throughout the foregoing letter, I have used the words contagion and infection as precisely synonymous terms, meaning communicability of disease from one person to another.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest