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pathographies

pathographies is the plural of pathography.

Meaning of pathography

Noun

pathography (plural pathographies)

  1. A biography that highlights the negative aspects of its subject's life.
    • Though this has been an era of magisterial biographies by such writers as Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Joseph Frank, Judith Thurman and Justin Kaplan, among others, it has also evolved a new subspecies of the genre to which the name "pathography" might usefully be given: hagiography's diminished and...[1988 August 28, Joyce Carol Oates, “Adventures in Abandonment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. A biography that explores the effects of a disease on its subject's life.

Questions about pathographies

What is pathographies the plural of?
Pathographies is the plural of pathography.

Words near pathographies in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathographies (page history and authors); pathography (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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