homeopathy
pronunciation
How to pronounce homeopathy in British English:
UK [ˌhəʊmiˈɒpəθi]
How to pronounce homeopathy in American English:
US [ˌhomiˈɑpəθi]
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- Noun:
- a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
Word Origin
- homeopathy
- homeopathy: [19] Greek hómoios meant ‘like, similar’. It was derived from homós ‘same’, a word ultimately related to English same which has contributed homogeneous [17], homonym [17], homophone [17], and homosexual [19] to the English language. Combined with -pátheia, a derivative of Greek páthos ‘passion, suffering’, it produced German homöopathie, which was borrowed by English around 1830. Etymologically, the word means ‘cure by similarity’ – that is, by administering minute quantities of the same substance as caused the disease – and contrasts with allopathy [19], based on Greek állos ‘other’.=> same
- homeopathy (n.)
- 1830, from German Homöopathie, coined 1824 by German physician Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann (1755-1843) from Greek homoios "like, similar, of the same kind" (see homeo-) + -patheia (see -pathy).
Example
- 1. Over the world homeopathy has gained official status .
- 2. Skeptics say that homeopathy is nothing more than the placebo effect .
- 3. Homeopathy is the placebo effect ?
- 4. Recognized homeopathy as a medical method .
- 5. Homeopathy has its roots in history .