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Facial vs Therapy - What's the difference?

facial | therapy |

As nouns the difference between facial and therapy

is that facial is a personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face while therapy is treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.

As an adjective facial

is of or affecting the face.

As a verb therapy is

to treat with a therapy.

facial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or affecting the face.

    • Coordinate terms

    *

    Noun

    (facial) (en noun)
  • A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
  • (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
  • * 2004 , Simon Popple, ?Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory (page 92)
    • But in facials , moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details
  • (slang, in some contact sports) A which involves one player hitting another in the face.
  • (vulgar, slang) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
    • He gave his wife a creamy facial.

    Related terms

    * facially

    Derived terms

    * facial cream * facial expression * facial feature * facial hair * facial nerve * facial profiling ----

    therapy

    English

    Noun

    (therapies)
  • Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
  • Healing power or quality.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adjuvant therapy * antitherapy * apitherapy * art therapy * autotherapy * autohemotherapy * brachytherapy * chemotherapy * cobalt therapy * conversion therapy * cryotherapy * ecotherapy * electroconvulsive therapy * electrotherapy * gene therapy * gestalt therapy * heliotherapy * hypnotherapy * immunotherapy * logotherapy * magnotherapy * monotherapy * multidrug therapy * music therapy * neoadjuvant therapy * oligotherapy * oxygen therapy * ozone therapy * physical therapy * physiotherapy * primal therapy * psychotherapy * radiotherapy * radiation therapy * reparative therapy * retail therapy * running therapy * serotherapy * shock therapy * systemic therapy * teletherapy * theotherapy * thought field therapy * timeline therapy * vinotherapy

    Related terms

    * therapeutic * therapeutical * therapist

    Verb

  • To treat with a therapy.
  • To undergo a therapy.

    • Anagrams

    * English homographic denominal verbs