therapeutic
pronunciation
How to pronounce therapeutic in British English:
UK [ˌθerəˈpjuːtɪk]
How to pronounce therapeutic in American English:
US [ˌθerəˈpjuːtɪk]
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- Adjective:
- tending to cure or restore to health
- relating to or involved in therapy
Word Origin
- therapeutic (adj.)
- pertaining to the healing of disease, 1640s, from Modern Latin therapeuticus "curing, healing," from Greek therapeutikos, from therapeutein "to cure, treat medically," primarily "do service, take care of, provide for," of unknown origin, related to therapon "attendant." Therapeutic was used from 1540s as a noun meaning "the branch of medicine concerned with treatment of disease." Related: Therapeutical (c. 1600).
Example
- 1. The technology that uses genetic material for therapeutic purposes .
- 2. These often look perfect but lack the therapeutic ingredients .
- 3. Aside from its therapeutic benefits , milking the prostate is also a means for achieving sexual arousal in men .
- 4. In line with democritus , epicurus espoused an atomistic metaphysics but combined and justified it with a brand of therapeutic hedonism , in which the anxieties of contemporary life were salved by the pursuit of pleasure without fear of divine punishment .
- 5. The us department of defense ( dod ) , coordinator and supervisor of all agencies and functions of the us government , has released biozen , a free smartphone application to help service members use the therapeutic benefits of biofeedback .