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homoeopathy

homoeopathy is the alternative spelling of homeopathy.

Meaning of homeopathy

Noun

homeopathy (countable and uncountable, plural homeopathies)

  1. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.
    • I am sure that if doctors (for instance) were first taught how to use some of the other methods of homeopathy effectively, particularly the therapeutics and organ-based methods, they would be much more able to incorporate these into their practices […]2004, Ian Watson, A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy, Cutting Edge Publications, →ISBN, page 20
    Antonyms:
    allopathy

Words formed from homoeopathy

Questions about homoeopathy

What is homoeopathy the alternative spelling of?
Homoeopathy is the alternative spelling of homeopathy.

Words near homoeopathy in the dictionary

  1. homoeopathicity
  2. homoeopathism
  3. homoeopathist
  4. homoeopathists
  5. homoeopaths
  6. homoeopathy
  7. homoeophone
  8. homoeophones
  9. homoeophony
  10. homoeoplastic
  11. homoeopropheron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homoeopathy (page history and authors); homeopathy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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