venereal infection

Questions about venereal infection

What does venereal infection mean?

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

What is another word for venereal infection?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, social disease, 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 venereal infection a common word?

venereal infection 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.