social disease

Questions about social disease

What does social disease mean?

social disease means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact".

What is another word for social disease?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease. 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 social disease a common word?

social 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.