Associations to the word «Milieu»

Wiktionary

MILIEU, noun. Medium
MILIEU, noun. A person's social setting or environment
MILIEU CONTROL, noun. (idiomatic) (linguistics) tactics that control environment and human communication through the use of peer pressure and group language.
MILIEU THERAPY, noun. A form of community-based psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and others within the unit, based upon a hierarchy of collective punishments.

Dictionary definition

MILIEU, noun. The environmental condition.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates