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Social disease   /sˈoʊʃəl dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Social disease

noun
1.
A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact.  Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse.






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"Social disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... the scale, we have the parasitic class of the beggars or thieves. They, too, are not personally responsible for the conditions into which they are born. But they are not only to be pitied individually, but to be regarded, in the mass, as involving social disease and danger. More words upon that topic are quite superfluous, but I may just recall the truth that the two evils are directly connected. We hear it often said, and often denied, that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer. So far, however, as it is ...
— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen



Words linked to "Social disease" :   herpes genitalis, lues venerea, syphilis, granuloma inguinale, pox, gonorrhoea, lues, contagion, lymphopathia venereum, clap, lymphogranuloma venereum, gonorrhea, genital herpes, syph, chlamydia, LGV, contagious disease, granuloma venereum



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