therapy
/ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/
therapy noun: attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
Noun
therapy (countable and uncountable, plural therapies)
- Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
- inclined bed therapy
- It will be seen that we are introducing to our readers the subject of Kinesitherapy, in common with other therapies, and it is very proper that we should do so.1851, “Omnium gatherum”, in American Magazine: Devoted to Homoeopathy and Hydropathy, volume 1, page 222
- Specifically, psychotherapy.
- As a methodology, it provides a useful framework for evaluating the outcomes of therapy.1948, Harold B. Pepinsky, Diagnostic Categories in Clinical Counseling, page 3
- The existential approach to therapy is philosophical, involving exploration of what it means to be alive.2015, Alan Meaden, Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis
- Healing power or quality.
Verb
therapy (third-person singular simple present therapies, present participle therapying, simple past and past participle therapied)
- To treat with a therapy.
- As is the case for therapying ectopic ACTH production, very high serum cortisol levels necessitate adrenolytic therapy with o,p'DDD (mitotane), metopirone, or aminogluthetimide.1998, Ursula Rüther, Paraneoplastic syndromes, page 5
- There was no cytogenetic damage to the therapied or non-therapied regions in the buccal mucosa cells, as determined cytomorphologically.2012, Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition, page 579
- To undergo a therapy.
- Therapy has almost eliminated violence, and people are divided into groups — the "therapied" and the "un-therapied."1992, Talking Book Topics, page 35
- After a few years of talking about musicking, healthing, therapying, and so forth, most of us will have enough, I assume, and will not necessarily be in a new place.2002, Brynjulf Stige, Culture-centered music therapy, page 101
therapy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
therapy in Hindi
- treatment of disease
- चिकित्सा cikitsā, इलाज ilāj
therapy in Tamil
- நோய்த்தீர் மருத்துவம், பணி நீக்கல் சார்ந்த, மருத்துவச் சிகிச்சை, சிகிச்சை, மருத்துவம், மருத்து மருத்துவம்
therapy in Urdu
- treatment of disease
- علاج 'ilāj
therapy in Bengali
- চিকিত্সাবিদ্যা
More languagesFewer languages
- therapy in Malayalam
- ചികിത്സ, രോഗചികിത്സ, ശമനചികിത്സ, ആതുരശുശ്രുഷ
- therapy in Kannada
- ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ, ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸಾ ವಿಧಾನ, ಮಾಂಜುಗೆ
- therapy in Arabic
- عِلَاج ʕilāj, مُعَالَجَة muʕālaja
- therapy in Indonesian
- terapi
- therapy in Persian
- درمان darmân, علاج 'elâj
- therapy in Vietnamese
- điều trị
Examples of therapy in a sentence
- […] second, its formidable features prompt the average physician at an early period to consult the dermatologist respecting its nature and therapy […]1885 November, James Nevins, “On the relations of lupus vulgaris to tuberculosis”, in Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, volume 3...
- Lahmann's unprecedented success proved beyond doubt the correctness of his teachings and the fallacy of the germ theory of disease, vaccinations and serum therapy.1926, Otto Carqué, The Key to Rational Dietetics, page 7:
- Because it is often confused with psychoanalysis, psychodynamics has at times been considered an outdated and outmoded approach to therapy.2015, David Capuzzi, Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling, page 152:
- I was therapying her for some gene-based subroutine screwups that prevented easeful sexuality.2014, Greg Bear, Queen of Angels:
Synonyms of therapy
Forms of therapy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | therapies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | therapies |
| present participle | therapying |
| past participle | therapied |
| past | therapied |
Origin of therapy
From New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía, “service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “to serve, treat medically”) + -ία (-ía, suffix for forming abstract nouns).
Words formed from therapy
Phrases with therapy
- art therapy
- pet therapy
- sex therapy
- cell therapy
- fish therapy
- gene therapy
- gold therapy
- play therapy
- step therapy
- chant therapy
- clown therapy
- colon therapy
85 more phrasesFewer phrases
- drama therapy
- grape therapy
- group therapy
- light therapy
- music therapy
- ozone therapy
- phage therapy
- shock therapy
- sound therapy
- stoss therapy
- therapy speak
- urine therapy
- X-ray therapy
- attack therapy
- cobalt therapy
- diesel therapy
- equine therapy
- Gerson therapy
- maggot therapy
- magnet therapy
- milieu therapy
- Morita therapy
- oxygen therapy
- plasma therapy
- primal therapy
- proton therapy
- rescue therapy
- retail therapy
- speech therapy
- couples therapy
- cupping therapy
- gestalt therapy
- hormone therapy
- massage therapy
- reality therapy
- rebound therapy
- running therapy
- salvage therapy
- therapy animals
- adjuvant therapy
- aversion therapy
- cellular therapy
- contrast therapy
- exposure therapy
- physical therapy
- polarity therapy
- raindrop therapy
- systemic therapy
- timeline therapy
- adventure therapy
- antisense therapy
- cognitive therapy
- flotation therapy
- intensive therapy
- inversion therapy
- radiation therapy
- zone foot therapy
- attachment therapy
- conversion therapy
- reparative therapy
- wilderness therapy
- Bach flower therapy
- neoadjuvant therapy
- craniosacral therapy
- electroshock therapy
- occupational therapy
- photodynamic therapy
- insulin shock therapy
- proliferation therapy
- feminist dance therapy
- animal-assisted therapy
- electroconvulsive therapy
- hormone replacement therapy
- hormone-replacement therapy
- cognitive behavioral therapy
- dialectical behavior therapy
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- dialectical behaviour therapy
- dialectical behavioral therapy
- dialectical behavioural therapy
- extracorporeal shockwave therapy
- acceptance and commitment therapy
- trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
- trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
- trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
Questions about therapy
- What does therapy mean?
- Therapy means attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
- What is therapy in Hindi?
- Therapy in Hindi is चिकित्सा (cikitsā), इलाज (ilāj). See Therapy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use therapy in a sentence?
- […] second, its formidable features prompt the average physician at an early period to consult the dermatologist respecting its nature and therapy […]
- What part of speech is therapy?
- Therapy can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce therapy?
- Therapy is pronounced /ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/.
- What is the plural of therapy?
- The plural of therapy is therapies.
Words near therapy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: therapy (page history and authors); therapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); therapy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); therapy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); therapy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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