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say it: hoh-mee-oh-PATH-ee
homeopathy is a noun meaning "a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated". It is pronounced /ˌhoʊmioʊˈpæθi/ — hoh-mee-oh-PATH-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homeopathy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.