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   communicable

   /kəˈmjuːnɪkəbl/

   adjective

   • 1. able to be communicated to others: "the value of the product must be communicable to the potential consumers"
   • ▪ (of a disease) able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious: "the fight against communicable disease"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘communicating, having communication’): from Old French, from late Latin communicabilis, from the verb communicare ‘to share’ (see communicate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. communicability noun
   • 2. communicably adverb

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