correction vs therapy

therapy vs correction

correction and therapy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
correction	Yes	No	No	No
therapy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, therapy is a hypernym of correction; that is, therapy is a word with a broader meaning than correction:

correction: treatment of a specific defect
therapy: (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)

Other hypernyms of correction include treatment.

correction (noun)	therapy (noun)
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right	(medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
treatment of a specific defect
the act of disciplining
a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
a rebuke for making a mistake
something substituted for an error
a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

Difference between correction and therapy

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