Comfort vs Placebo - What's the difference?
comfort | placebo |
Contentment, ease.
Something that offers comfort.
A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
* Francis Bacon
To make comfortable. (rfex)
(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
* Shakespeare
(Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
* 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
As nouns the difference between comfort and placebo
is that comfort is contentment, ease while placebo is placebo.As a verb comfort
is to relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.comfort
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
- the comforts of home
- We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort : at least the independency was preserved.
Synonyms
*Antonyms
* austerityVerb
(en verb)- Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
- Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
- (Wyclif)
- God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
- I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!
Synonyms
* besootheDerived terms
* cold comfort * comfort woman * comfortable * comforter * comforting * discomfort * letter of comfort ----placebo
English
(wikipedia placebo)Noun
(en-noun)- There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
- The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
