communicable

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.

Our intelligence being by no other way communicable to one another but by a particular word, he who falsifies that betrays public society. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
He knew how communicable confidence is; he even smiled to hear him speak, and said nothing of the uneasiness for the future which he felt. — The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne
With a favor to ask we review our list of friends, do justice to their more amiable qualities, forgive their little offenses, and concerning each in turn, try to arrive at the conclusion that he will be eager to oblige us, our own eagerness to be obliged being as communicable as other warmth. — Middlemarch, George Eliot

catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

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