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Definition: Homoeopathy |
HomoeopathyNoun1. A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homoeopathy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | See Allopathy. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Homoeopathy (5 syl.). The plan of curing a disease by very minute doses of a medicine which would in healthy persons produce the very same disease. The principle of vaccination is a sort of homoeopathy, only it is producing in a healthy person a mitigated form of the disease guarded against. You impart a mild form of small-pox to prevent the patient from taking the virulent disease. (Greek, homoios pathos, like disease.) (See Hahnemann.) "Tut, man! one fire burns out another's burning! One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to the eye, And the rank poison of the old will die." Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i.2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: HomoeopathySynonym: homeopathy (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: allopathy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Homoeopathy |
| English words defined with "homoeopathy": Homoeopathic, Homoeopathist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homoeopathy": ALLOPATHY. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Homoeopathy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.60% of the time. "Homoeopathy" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.6% | 141 | 26,682 |
| Noun (common) | 1.4% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 143 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
homoeopathy | 68 |
cme homoeopathy | 5 |
electronic homoeopathy | 3 |
homoeopathy homeopathy | 3 |
clinic homoeopathy | 2 |
homoeopathy vaccinations | 2 |
article homoeopathy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homoeopathy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | homeopati (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Danish | naturvidenskabeligt-kritisk homoeopati (scientific critical homoeopathy), klassisk homoeopati (classical homoeopathy). (various references) | |
French | homéopathie scientifique critique (scientific critical homoeopathy), homéopathie classique (classical homoeopathy). (various references) | |
German | homöopathie (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Greek | ομοιοπάθεια. (various references) | |
Hungarian | homeopátia (homeopathy), hason szervi gyógymód (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Italian | omeopatia (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omoeopathyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homeopatia (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Romanian | homeopatie. (various references) | |
Russian | гомеопатия (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Spanish | homeopatía (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Swedish | homeopati (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Turkish | homeopati (homeopathy), benzeri ile tedavi yöntemi (homeopathy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гомеопатія (homeopathy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-m-o-o-o-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: homeopathy. | |
-2 letters: homeopath. | |
-4 letters: apothem, empathy, oophyte. | |
-5 letters: heathy, hoopoe, hyphae, oompah, phooey, teapoy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-m-o-o-o-p-t-y" | |
+4 letters: chemoautotrophy. | |
+5 letters: hemoglobinopathy, pheochromocytoma. | |
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