English noun: social disease |
1. | social disease (state) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact |
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| Synonyms | Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse |
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| Broader (hypernym) | contagion, contagious disease |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | chlamydia, clap, genital herpes, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, herpes genitalis, LGV, lues, lues venerea, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum, pox, syph, syphilis |
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