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Placebo vs Sooth - What's the difference?

placebo | sooth |

As nouns the difference between placebo and sooth

is that placebo is placebo while sooth is (archaic) truth.

As an adjective sooth is

(archaic) true.

placebo

English

(wikipedia placebo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
    • There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
  • (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • * 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
    • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.

    Antonyms

    * nocebo

    Derived terms

    * antiplacebo * nonplacebo * placebic * placebo effect

    sooth

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Truth.
  • * (Merchant of Venice , Act I, Scene 1)
    • In sooth , I know not why I am so sad.
  • * Longfellow
    • In good sooth , / Its mystery is love, its meaning youth.
  • (obsolete) augury; prognostication
  • * Spenser
    • The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.
  • (obsolete) blandishment; cajolery
  • (obsolete) reality; fact

    • Derived terms

    * soothsayer * soothsaying * soothfast * forsooth

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) True.
  • * Spenser
    • That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
  • (obsolete) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
  • * Milton
    • the soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains
  • * Keats
    • with jellies soother than the creamy curd

    See also

    * soothe * soothly * soothfast * forsooth

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