hydropathy
noun
hydropathy is a noun meaning “The therapeutic use of water, either internally or externally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-P-A-T-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydropathy is hydropathies.
What does hydropathy mean?
noun
- 1
The therapeutic use of water, either internally or externally.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydropathy
- hydropathies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydropathy?
Hydropathy appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hydropathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The therapeutic use of water:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hidropatía, hidroterapia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hydropathy come from?
From hydro- + -pathy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).