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upshot vs placebo effect

placebo effect vs upshot

upshot and placebo effect both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
upshot Yes No No No
placebo effect Yes No No No
As nouns, placebo effect is a hyponym of upshot; that is, placebo effect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than upshot:
  • upshot: 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
upshot (noun) placebo effect (noun)
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon 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
Difference between upshot and placebo effect

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