reciprocal-inhibition therapy

Questions about reciprocal-inhibition therapy

What is another word for reciprocal-inhibition therapy?

It depends which reciprocal-inhibition therapy you mean. In the sense “a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety”, the synonyms are reciprocal inhibition. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of reciprocal-inhibition therapy?

WordNet records no antonym for reciprocal-inhibition therapy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for reciprocal-inhibition therapy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for reciprocal-inhibition therapyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for reciprocal-inhibition therapyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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