psychotherapy

Other forms of psychotherapy

plural

psychotherapies·

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.

Questions about psychotherapy

What does psychotherapy mean?

psychotherapy means "the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in psychotherapy?

psychotherapy has 5 syllables: psy-cho-ther-a-py. The stress falls on "ther". In IPA it is /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/.

What is another word for psychotherapy?

Close synonyms include psychotherapeutics, mental hygiene. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is psychotherapy a common word?

psychotherapy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with psychotherapy?

4 words rhyme with psychotherapy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.