pandemic

adjective2

1. •
   Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

   • The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.
2. •
   General, widespread.

noun2

1. •
   A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.

   • The American pandemic of men's violence against women is one of the greatest tragedies of our time. — 2000
2. •
   The COVID-19 pandemic.

adjective1

1. •
   Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.

   • That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one. — 1852