treatment

1. 1.

   care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

   Synonymsintervention

   Broadercare

   Narrowermedical caremassagemodalitydetoxificationchiropracticfomentationnaturopathynaprapathyorthodontic treatmentorthoptics

   Partsremedy
2. 2.

   the management of someone or something

   “the handling of prisoners”

   “the treatment of water sewage”

   “the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system”

   Synonymshandling

   Broadermanagement

   Narrowerbioremediationdealing
3. 3.

   a manner of dealing with something artistically

   “his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture”

   Broaderartistic style
4. 4.

   an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

   “the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic”

   “his treatment of the race question is badly biased”

   Synonymsdiscussiondiscourse

   Broadercommunication

   Narrowerdetaildilationconsiderationtalkexpansion

Other forms of treatment

plural

treatments·

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 treatment

What does treatment mean?

treatment means "care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in treatment?

treatment has 2 syllables: treat-ment. The stress falls on "treat". In IPA it is /ˈtɹitmənt/.

What is another word for treatment?

Close synonyms include intervention, handling, discussion, discourse. 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 treatment a common word?

treatment is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 treatment?

1 word rhymes with treatment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.