therapy

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English

Etymology

From New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía, “service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I serve, treat medically”) +‎ -ία (-ía, suffix for forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thĕrʹə-pē, IPA^(key): /ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/
  • (Southern US and AAVE sometimes alternatively, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜɹ.ə.pi/

Noun

therapy (countable and uncountable, plural therapies)

1. Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
   1. Specifically, psychotherapy.
2. (Can we add an example for this sense?) Healing power or quality.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:therapy

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Irish: teiripe
• → Scottish Gaelic: teiripe
• → Welsh: therapi

Translations

References

• therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

therapy (third-person singular simple present therapies, present participle therapying, simple past and past participle therapied)

1. (transitive, rare) To treat with a therapy.
2. (intransitive, rare) To undergo a therapy.

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Anagrams

• prayeth