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pathographic

pathographic adjective: relating to pathography.

Adjective

pathographic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to pathography.
    • At the same time Hildebrandt's attack on all pathographic methods that look for nothing but morbid symptoms or simply assume the existence of such symptoms when convenient, is masterful only in so far as it deals with the period before Nietzsche's collapse.1931, Erich F. Podach, The Madness of Nietzsche, page 62
    • Although this perspective of limits of understanding is very fascinating there emerges out of it a constant problem for the pathographic viewpoint.2013, Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs, One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

Forms of pathographic

alternative formpathographical

Origin of pathographic

From pathography + -ic.

Questions about pathographic

What does pathographic mean?
Pathographic means relating to pathography.
What part of speech is pathographic?
Pathographic is an adjective.

Words near pathographic in the dictionary

  1. pathognostic
  2. pathogonies
  3. pathogony
  4. pathographer
  5. pathographers
  6. pathographic
  7. pathographical
  8. pathographies
  9. pathography
  10. pathogroup
  11. pathogroups

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