communicable
adjective
capable of being easily communicated or transmitted.
communicability
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a word derived from
communicable.
Example Sentences
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Without that communicability, the discovery would have a strange status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
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
As a concerned friend, Ben told me that when scientists are trying to test the communicability of a virus, they often have the subjects of the experiment play cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
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
Field seems to have excerpted this incautiously from the Schoolmen, who on this premiss could justify the communicability of adoration, as in the case of the saints.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
