Pathy vs Treatment - What's the difference?
pathy | treatment |
(informal) A therapy
*1849 Journal of Health
**So, no doubt, it may be applied to hydropathy, and to every other sort of pathy''', and the result will be that every sort of '''pathy cures not all persons, but many persons...
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
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(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between pathy and treatment
is that pathy is (informal) a therapy while treatment is the process or manner of treating someone or something.pathy
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Noun
(pathies)treatment
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Noun
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
- Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.