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Nontherapeutic vs Intactivist - What's the difference?

nontherapeutic | intactivist |

As an adjective nontherapeutic

is not therapeutic.

As a noun intactivist is

a person who is involved in intactivism; one who campaigns against involuntary, nontherapeutic genital modification, such as infant male circumcision.

nontherapeutic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not therapeutic
  • Unrelated to medical treatment
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    • , passage=But the notorious British heroin "epidemic" was nothing next to the entirely bootleg U. S. epidemic that occurred at the same time; in 1967 the Home Office counted 1,290 "nontherapeutic " addicts. }}

    intactivist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is involved in intactivism; one who campaigns against involuntary, nontherapeutic genital modification, such as infant male circumcision.

    • Synonyms

    * (one opposed to male circumcision) anti-circer, anti-circumcisionist

    Antonyms

    * (one opposed to male circumcision) pro-circer, pro-circumcisionist