placebo effect - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs

Synonyms

• placebo effect

More generic

• consequence
• effect
• event
• issue
• outcome
• result
• upshot

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