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From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (curing, healing), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, attentive, helpful, obliging, curative), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, one who waits on another, an attendant), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, I wait on, attend, serve, cure).

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therapeutic (comparative more therapeutic, superlative most therapeutic)

  1. Of, or relating to therapy.
    • 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times[1]:
      “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
  2. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth,[], 2nd edition, London: [] John Clark and Richard Hett,[], Emanuel Matthews,[], and Richard Ford,[], published 1726, →OCLC:
      Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.
    • 2009, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process:
      His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.

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of, or relating to therapy
having a positive effect on the body or mind

Noun

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therapeutic (plural therapeutics)

  1. (medicine) A therapeutic agent

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therapeutic (not comparable)

  1. therapeutic (pertaining to therapy)

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