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inˈfectiousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being infectious.
1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 223 Seeing the infectiousnesse of the pestilence or leprosie in others. 1685Boyle Salub. Air iii. 89 Sometimes the plague ceases, or at least very notably abates of its infectiousness and malignity, in far less time. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 489 The Infectiousness of our Tempers and Dispositions. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 136 Some classification of the partially infectious tumours by their kinds of infectiousness may be agreed upon. |