cupid's disease

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   a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

   Synonymsvenereal diseaseVDvenereal infectionsocial diseaseCupid's itchVenus's cursedosesexually transmitted diseaseSTD

   Broadercontagious disease

   Narrowergenital herpesgonorrheagranuloma inguinalesyphilislymphogranuloma venereumchlamydia

Questions about cupid's disease

What does cupid's disease mean?

cupid's disease means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact".

What is another word for cupid's disease?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cupid's disease a common word?

cupid's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.