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Adjective epidemic has 1 sense

epidemic - (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
Antonyms: endemic, endemical, enzootic, ecdemic

Noun epidemic has 1 sense

epidemic - a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
--₁ is a kind of outbreak, eruption, irruption
--₁ has particulars: pandemic