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absent treatments

absent treatments is the plural of absent treatment.

Meaning of absent treatment

Noun

absent treatment (countable and uncountable, plural absent treatments)

  1. (archaic) A (nonscientific or pseudoscientific) form of (alleged) medical therapy in which the practitioner brings about healing despite their being physically absent, through telepathy, telekinesis, prayer, or a combination of those.
    • In 1859, Quimby [Phineas Parkhurst Quimby] opened an office in Portland, Maine, after several years spent treating the sick at his home in Belfast [Belfast, Maine] and during his travels. He treated his patients with a combination of panaceas, giving them glasses of magnetized water, rubbing their...2019 [1999], Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, Twentieth Anniversary Edition edition, Picador, →ISBN, pages 54-59
    Synonyms:
    teletherapy
  2. (uncommon) Interpersonal treatment (way of interacting), usually mistreatment, that ignores the presence of a person.
    • Near-synonyms: silent treatment, cold shoulder

Questions about absent treatments

What is absent treatments the plural of?
Absent treatments is the plural of absent treatment.

Words near absent treatments in the dictionary

  1. absent
  2. absent over leave
  3. absent referent
  4. absent referents
  5. absent treatment
  6. absent treatments
  7. absent voter
  8. absent voters
  9. absent without leave
  10. absent-minded
  11. absent-minded professor

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