Treatment meaning

What does “treatment” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“treatment” is a noun with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury).

treatment

noun

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

    Synonymsintervention
  2. the management of someone or something

    “the handling of prisoners”

    “the treatment of water sewage”

    Synonymshandling
  3. a manner of dealing with something artistically

    “his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture”

  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”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University