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Initialism vs Therapy - What's the difference?

initialism | therapy |

As nouns the difference between initialism and therapy

is that initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter while therapy is treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.

As a verb therapy is

to treat with a therapy.

initialism

English

Noun

(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)
  • A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
    • BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

    See also

    * abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *

    External links

    * Acronyms selected for your enjoyment * English words suffixed with -ism

    therapy

    English

    Noun

    (therapies)
  • Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
  • Healing power or quality.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adjuvant therapy * antitherapy * apitherapy * art therapy * autotherapy * autohemotherapy * brachytherapy * chemotherapy * cobalt therapy * conversion therapy * cryotherapy * ecotherapy * electroconvulsive therapy * electrotherapy * gene therapy * gestalt therapy * heliotherapy * hypnotherapy * immunotherapy * logotherapy * magnotherapy * monotherapy * multidrug therapy * music therapy * neoadjuvant therapy * oligotherapy * oxygen therapy * ozone therapy * physical therapy * physiotherapy * primal therapy * psychotherapy * radiotherapy * radiation therapy * reparative therapy * retail therapy * running therapy * serotherapy * shock therapy * systemic therapy * teletherapy * theotherapy * thought field therapy * timeline therapy * vinotherapy

    Related terms

    * therapeutic * therapeutical * therapist

    Verb

  • To treat with a therapy.
  • To undergo a therapy.

    • Anagrams

    * English homographic denominal verbs