Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The medical treatment of diseased conditions of the body by the administration of drugs which are capable of exciting in healthy persons symptoms closely similar to those of the morbid condition treated. This system of medicine was founded by Dr. S. C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) at Leipsic. The fundamental doctrine of homeopathy is expressed in the Latin adage “Similia similibus curantur” (likes are cured by likes). In practice homeopathy is associated with the system of administering drugs in very small, often infinitesimal, doses.
Wiktionary
- n. pseudoscience a system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (
tuto ,cito ,et jucunde ) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed toallopathy , orheteropathy .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
Etymologies
- From German Homöopathie; homeo- + -pathy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term homeopathy comes from the Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease.”
“Boiron: Boiron, a world leader in homeopathy, is a $500 million pharmaceutical company producing over 1,500 homeopathic medicines, including Oscillococcinum and Arnica.”
“The term homeopathy, its formal definition, and the methodology of this medical system derived from German physician,”
“No one seems to be arguing that Hahnemann neither create the term homeopathy nor establish its basic western expression, which I see as the main focus of this article.”
“The term homeopathy and its formal definition came from German physician,”
“Samuel Hahnemann defined the term homeopathy and the methods of provings and potentiation.”
“Would it be OK for a teacher to say that homeopathy is nonsense?”
“The premise behind homeopathy is that symptoms of illness are not just something "wrong" with the person but are actually efforts of their bodymind to fight infection and/or to adapt to stress.”
The Huffington Post: Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression?
“Ultimately, homeopathy is what Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, called "medical aikido" because it goes with, rather than against, the force of the disease.”
The Huffington Post: Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression?
“A lot of people believe in homeopathy, alien abduction and astrology.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘homeopathy’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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pseudoscience
craniology, craniometer, cranioscopy, phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic, choleric, homeopathy, allopathy, metoposcopy, panacea, catholicon and 24 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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homeo-
similar
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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She Blinded Me With Pseudoscience
With enough jargon and statistics, hucksters can make you believe anything. He may be wearing a lab coat, but he ain't your friend.
cryptozoology, ufology, power crystals, reflexology, hypnotherapy, perpetual motion ..., chiropractic, the force, telepathy, telekinesis, paranormal invest..., phrenology and 39 more...
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Lucid Nutrition
camu camu, spirulina, wheat grass, longevity, macrobiotics, ayurveda, supplement, genome, epigenetics, homeopathy, vegetarian, raw food and 60 more...
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Bionomenclature
phloem, lithops, ericaceous, albido, tarn, bosque, mirage, skerry, weir, kingfisher, effluvia, potherb and 48 more...
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Thanks, pseudoscience!
For everyone else who doesn't wear a cheeky lab coat.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for homeopathy.
yarb The transition from the round 'o' to the pert 'p' to the toothsome 'th' is what gives it its lustre. Mar 13, 2008
coldspire An easy and enjoyable word to speak, even if it represents an odious concept. Aesthetically pleasing, even. Mar 13, 2008