consequence vs placebo effect

consequence and placebo effect both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
consequence	Yes	No	No	No
placebo effect	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, placebo effect is a hyponym of consequence; that is, placebo effect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than consequence:

consequence: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
placebo effect: 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

Other hyponyms of consequence include materialisation, materialization, offspring, aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, wake, bandwagon effect, brisance, butterfly effect, by-product, byproduct, change, coattails effect, Coriolis effect, dent, domino effect, harvest, impact, wallop, influence, knock-on effect, branch, offset, offshoot, outgrowth, product, position effect, repercussion, reverberation, response, fallout, side effect, spillover.

consequence (noun)	placebo effect (noun)
having important effects or influence	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
the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

consequence vs placebo effect

consequence and placebo effect both are nouns.

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