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DIETETICS

Dictionary entry overview: What does dietetics mean?

• DIETETICS (noun)
The noun DIETETICS has 1 sense:

1. the scientific study of food preparation and intake

Familiarity information: DIETETICS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIETETICS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The scientific study of food preparation and intake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dietetics" is a kind of...):

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dietetics"):

macrobiotics (the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains))

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