Anticontagionism

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief that certain diseases, such as yellow fever, were not contagious. historical, uncountable

Etymology

From anti- + contagion + -ism.

Related phrases

yellow fever

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