therapeutic
adjEtymology
From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).
- derived from therapeuticus
- derived from terapeucia
Definitions
Of, or relating to therapy.
- “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
- Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.
- His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.
A therapeutic agent
The neighborhood
- synonymtherapeutical
- synonymcurative
- synonymremedial
- neighbortherapeutical
- neighbortherapeutics
- neighbortherapist
- neighbortherapy
Derived
actinotherapeutic, aerotherapeutic, antitherapeutic, aromatherapeutic, autotherapeutic, bacteriotherapeutic, balneotherapeutic, bibliotherapeutic, biotherapeutic, brachytherapeutic, cardiotherapeutic, chemicotherapeutic, chemotherapeutic, chromotherapeutic, chronotherapeutic, chrysotherapeutic, climatotherapeutic, cotherapeutic, countertherapeutic, cybertherapeutic, cytotherapeutic, dermatotherapeutic, dystherapeutic, ecotherapeutic, electrotherapeutic, eutherapeutic, extratherapeutic, extra-therapeutic, fabotherapeutic, gerontotherapeutic, heliotherapeutic, hemotherapeutic, homeotherapeutic, hydrotherapeutic, hypnotherapeutic, immunotherapeutic, logotherapeutic, magnetotherapeutic, massotherapeutic, mechanotherapeutic · +55 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at therapeutic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at therapeutic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at therapeutic
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA