treatment meaning and definition

TREATMENT noun

Definition of treatment (noun)

1. care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
   • synonyms: intervention
2. the management of someone or something
   • "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
   • synonyms: handling
3. a manner of dealing with something artistically
   • "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
4. an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
   • "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
   • synonyms: discourse, discussion