Definitions for therapy
ˈθɛr ə pither·a·py

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. therapynoun

   (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)

   "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. therapynoun

   Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.

   Etymology: From θεραπεία, from θεραπεύω.

2. therapynoun

   Healing power or quality.

   Etymology: From θεραπεία, from θεραπεύω.

3. therapyverb

   To treat with a therapy.

   Etymology: From θεραπεία, from θεραπεύω.

4. therapyverb

   To undergo a therapy.

   Etymology: From θεραπεία, from θεραπεύω.

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1. Therapynoun

   therapeutics

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1. Therapy

   Therapy is a novel by British author David Lodge. The story concerns a successful sitcom writer, Laurence Passmore, plagued by middle-age neuroses and a failed marriage. His only problem seems to be an "internal derangement of the knee" but a mid-life crisis has struck and he is discovering angst. His familiar doses of cognitive therapy, aromatherapy, and acupuncture all offer no help, and he becomes obsessed with the philosophy of Kierkegaard. Moreover, Tubby, as Passmore is nicknamed, and referred to by several characters in the novel, undertakes a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to find his first love.

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1. therapy

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'therapy' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4690

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'therapy' in Nouns Frequency: #1786

Anagrams for therapy »

1. prayeth

How to pronounce therapy?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of therapy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of therapy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of therapy in a Sentence

1. Marcie Bockbrader:

   What this would tell us is if the brain stimulation is working more than just therapy alone.

2. Celia Morgan:

   Ketamine is a well-tolerated drug and can help alleviate the symptoms of depression, with a pilot study suggesting that it could cut alcohol relapse rates by more than half, this trial will allow us to examine whether ketamine, combined with therapy, can indeed help people stay abstinent from alcohol.

3. Chris Pine:

   Therapy's like going to the gym.

4. Pam Lipp:

   I grew up in an environment where everything was pushed under the rug, people were suffering from mental illness, but they blamed it on other things like migraines. In reality, they needed therapy. I wasn't going to let that happen with Amanda.

5. William Cance:

   Cancer is still moving at The American Cancer Society pace. So we have to get people back in the research labs. We have to get our clinical trials back up and running, but in the context of this paper, we have to do it safely -- and when those patients undergoing therapy get Covid, it appears with these data that they have a much higher risk, but one of my greatest worries is the undiagnosed patient, the patients who need to be screened and they're not getting their screenings. In a lot of areas, colonoscopies have just stopped.

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