Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun treatment

4 senses of treatment

Sense 1
treatment, intervention -- (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))
       => care, attention, aid, tending -- (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention")

Sense 2
treatment, handling -- (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")
       => management, direction -- (the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?")

Sense 3
treatment -- (a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture")
       => artistic style, idiom -- (the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom")

Sense 4
discussion, treatment, discourse -- (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")
       => communication, communicating -- (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow")

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