quackery
The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego…The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
Quacksalberei
шарлата́нствоšarlatánstvo
(countable)An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
- medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
- the dishonesty of a charlatan
Examples
1 sentencesA new online database is fighting medical quackery by helping people easily find out if their doctor has a license.
Translations
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Forms
plural: quackeries| Singular | quackery |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings:empiricism
- the dishonesty of a charlatan:charlatanism
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.