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conversion therapy

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The practice of psychiatric or psychological treatment to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of an LGBT person; used especially as an attempt to turn gay people heterosexual.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: pseudoscience

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Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: عِلَاج التَّحْوِيل (ʕilāj at-taḥwīl) — treatment
  • Bulgarian: репаративна терапия (reparativna terapija) — treatment
  • Catalan: teràpia de conversió — treatment
  • Chinese Mandarin: 扭轉治療 /扭转治疗 (niǔzhuǎn zhìliáo) — treatment
  • Czech: konverzní terapie — treatment
  • Esperanto: konverta terapio — treatment
  • Esperanto: ripara terapio — treatment
  • Finnish: eheytyshoito — treatment
  • Finnish: eheytys — treatment
  • French: thérapie de conversion — treatment
  • French: thérapie de réorientation sexuelle — treatment
  • French: thérapie réparatrice — treatment
  • Hebrew: טִפּוּל הֲמָרָה (tipúl hamará) — treatment
  • Hungarian: konverziós terápia — treatment
  • Hungarian: reparatív terápia — treatment
  • Italian: terapia di conversione — treatment
  • Polish: terapia konwersyjna — treatment
  • Portuguese: terapia de conversão — treatment
  • Romanian: terapie de conversie — treatment
  • Russian: репарати́вная терапи́я (reparatívnaja terapíja) — treatment
  • Slovak: konverzné terapie — treatment
  • Spanish: terapia de conversión — treatment
  • Swedish: omvändelseterapi — treatment
  • Tamil: போலி மருத்துவம் (pōli maruttuvam) — treatment
  • Turkish: dönüşüm terapisi — treatment
  • Ukrainian: репарати́вна терапі́я (reparatývna terapíja) — treatment