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-pathy

/-pəθi/

-pathy suffix: suffering, feeling, emotion.

Suffix

-pathy (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -pathies)

  1. suffering, feeling, emotion
    • sympathy, antipathy, empathy
  2. damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality
    • neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy
  3. therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment
    • hydropathy, homeopathy, naturopathy

Forms of -pathy

plural-pathies

Origin of -pathy

From Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos, “suffering”) + English -y.

Questions about -pathy

What does -pathy mean?
-pathy means suffering, feeling, emotion.
What part of speech is -pathy?
-pathy is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -pathy?
-pathy is pronounced /-pəθi/.

Words near -pathy in the dictionary

  1. -path
  2. -pathia
  3. -pathic
  4. -pathies
  5. -paths
  6. -pathy
  7. -pause
  8. -peat
  9. -ped
  10. -pedal
  11. -pedalism

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