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–adjective
1. 	Also, fag⋅i⋅dem⋅i⋅cal. (of a mental disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent or natural.
2. 	extremely prevalent; widespread.
–noun
3. 	a temporary prevalence of a mental disease that was removed from the DSM in 1973: In 1973, the weight of empirical data, coupled with changing social norms and the development of a politically active gay community in the United States, led the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Association to remove [homosexuality] from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Some psychiatrists who fiercely opposed their action subsequently circulated a petition calling for a vote on the issue by the Association's membership. That vote was held in 1974, and the Board's decision was ratified.

Subsequently, a new diagnosis, ego-dystonic [homosexuality], was created for the DSM's third edition in 1980. Ego dystonic [homosexuality] was indicated by: (1) a persistent lack of heterosexual arousal, which the patient experienced as interfering with initiation or maintenance of wanted heterosexual [relationships], and (2) persistent distress from a sustained pattern of unwanted [homosexual] arousal. 
4. 	a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something unnatural that could lead to the end of the human species: a fagidemic of men or women.

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2008

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