ameliorative vs therapeutic

ameliorative

adj
  • Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve. 

  • Able to repair or ameliorate. 

noun
  • A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • That which betters or improves. 

therapeutic

adj
  • Having a positive effect on the body or mind. 

  • Of, or relating to therapy. 

noun
  • A therapeutic agent 

How often have the words ameliorative and therapeutic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )