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Meaning of "pathic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PATHIC

Via Latin from Greek pathikos passive.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PATHIC

pathic  [ˈpæθɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PATHIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pathic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PATHIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pathic

Homosexuality in ancient Rome

Same-sex attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome often differ markedly from those of the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual". The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active/dominant/masculine and passive/submissive/"feminized". Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male citizen possessed political liberty and the right to rule both himself and his household . "Virtue" was seen as an active quality through which a man defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status, as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, excluded from the normal protections accorded a citizen even if they were technically free.

Definition of pathic in the English dictionary

The first definition of pathic in the dictionary is a catamite. Other definition of pathic is a person who suffers; victim. Pathic is also of or relating to a catamite.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PATHIC


allelopathic
əˌliːləˈpæθɪk
allopathic
ˌæləˈpæθɪk
amphipathic
ˌæmfɪˈpæθɪk
cytopathic
ˌsaɪtəʊˈpæθɪk
empathic
ɛmˈpæθɪk
encephalopathic
ɛnˌsɛfələˈpæθɪk
feldspathic
fɛldˈspæθɪk
homeopathic
ˌhəʊmɪəʊˈpæθɪk
homoeopathic
ˌhəʊmɪəʊˈpæθɪk
hydropathic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈpæθɪk
idiopathic
ˌɪdɪəʊˈpæθɪk
myopathic
ˌmaɪəˈpæθɪk
naturopathic
ˌnætʃərəˈpæθɪk
nephropathic
ˌnɛfrəˈpæθɪk
neuropathic
njʊərəˈpæθɪk
osteopathic
ˌɒstɪəˈpæθɪk
psychopathic
ˌsaɪkəʊˈpæθɪk
sociopathic
ˌsəʊsɪəʊˈpæθɪk
telepathic
ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk
theopathic
ˌθɪəˈpæθɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PATHIC

path-breaking
path.
Pathan
pathetic
pathetic fallacy
pathetical
pathetically
pathfinder
pathfinder prospectus
pathfinding
pathless
pathlessness
pathname
pathobiology
pathogen
pathogene
pathogenesis
pathogenetic
pathogenic
pathogenicity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PATHIC

anthropopathic
antipathic
chrestomathic
endocrinopathic
ethic
eurybathic
felspathic
gnathic
Gothic
isobathic
kinesipathic
myelopathic
orthognathic
philomathic
photobathic
plectognathic
polymathic
prognathic
protopathic
stenobathic

Synonyms and antonyms of pathic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pathic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PATHIC

Find out the translation of pathic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pathic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pathic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

发性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pático
570 millions of speakers

English

pathic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pathic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pathic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pathic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pática
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পথভ্রষ্টতা প্রম্পটস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pathique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prospektus pathfinder
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pathischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

因性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pathic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pathfinder prospektus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pathic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாத்ஃபைண்டர் ப்ஸ்பெக்டஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पथदर्शी पत्रिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yol tarifi prospektüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omeopatico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tycznych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pathic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

idiopatică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παθική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pathic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pathic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pathic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pathic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PATHIC»

The term «pathic» is regularly used and occupies the 84.680 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PATHIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pathic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pathic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pathic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATHIC»

Discover the use of pathic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pathic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Heart in Teaching: Attending the Pathic. An Inquiry Into the ...
Heart in teaching: Attending the pathic focuses on a determination and explication of the pedagogical significance of teachers' lived experiences of heart in teaching.
Blaine E. Hatt, 2006
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The Clever Body
In his luminous analysis of the human sensory experiences, Erwin W. Straus made a distinction between the pathic and gnostic aspects of our relation to the world.5 By pathic, Straus means an immediate, sensually vivid communication with ...
Gabor Csepregi, 2006
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The Child in the World: Embodiment, Time, and Language in ...
Erwin Straus (1966/ 1980) calls this immediate communication we have with things on the basis of their changing mode of sensory givenness the pathic moment of perception. The pathic refers to the "immediately present, sensually vivid, still ...
Eva M. Simms, 2008
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What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?: ...
Gnostic and Pathic So as to lay further groundwork before moving into the specifics of the mathe— matical discipline and the relationship ofa person to that subject, I now briefly turn to another pairing of terms: gnostic and pathic. Both denote ...
Yuichi Handa, 2011
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Nursing and The Experience of Illness: Phenomenology in Practice
In contrast with the knowing or gnostic hand of palpation, the nurse's hand is pathic when it applies the dressing, straightens the bedding, starts an intravenous infusion, administers medication, cleans the skin, provides relief from pain, ...
Irena Madjar, Jo Ann Walton, 2005
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Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding
Straus notes that in personal experience there are "gnostic" and "pathic" modes.5 These two modes do not participate to an equal extent in the various kinds of perceptual experience, such as touching, hearing, and seeing. One may look at ...
Kraft E. Von Maltzahn, 1994
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Of Pathics and Evil
So, there is the natural pathic as distinguished from the conditioned pathic. One almost certain way of determining whether a person is naturally or conditionally a pathic, would be to observe his or her behavior from childhood up, which only a ...
Joseph Sguigna, 2009
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Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
Other euphemistic usages pertaining to defecation, urination, and pathic behavior in the The smophorizusae and Ecclesiazusae support this conclusion. The metaphorical terms for anus and perineum in these plays all refer to men, indicating ...
Laura McClure, 1999
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Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor
Such experiences are important to understand because it is precisely in pathic states, in the experience of passion, that the world as we know is changed. In these states, the unknown and novel happens upon us, that is, the ontic character  ...
Wolff-Michael Roth, 2011
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Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
Thus the series of pathic projections that leads inevitably to the pogrom begins with the collapse of the metaphor, with the failure of the figure to prevent a fundamentally ethical exchange: an irrevocable contact between human and nonhuman ...
Akira Mizuta Lippit, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATHIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pathic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cycle-pathic: Me and My Bike ... Louise Haston
Louise Haston claimed her place in the history books when she took Scotland's first medal of the 2014 Commonwealth Games – a silver medal ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
2
UIW to bring holistic healing to SA's south side
The new School of Osteo-pathic Medicine will be located in the northwest corner of Brooks City-Base. The initial plan is for the school to utilize ... «Wilson County News, Jul 15»
3
Cycle-pathic: musings from my sofa
BY the time you read this I'll be on holiday, enjoying a week off to watch the Tour de France in gloriously uninterrupted bliss. When the Why ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
4
Cycle-pathic: the lowdown on Macmillan Cycletta Scotland
ONE of my all-time favourite quotes comes from Susan B. Anthony, a 19th century American social reformer and feminist who played a central ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
5
Cycle-pathic: A quick guide to the 2015 Tour de France
The 102nd edition of the Tour de France gets underway with an individual time trial in the Dutch city of Utrecht on July 4. After the Grand Depart, ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
6
Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS) Acquires Spinifex for $200 Million to …
Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS) said in a statement that the EMA401 drug is developed by Spinifex Pharmaceuticals Inc to treat neuro-pathic ... «Benchmark Monitor, Jun 15»
7
Cycle-pathic: Dr Matt Rabin talks pain-free cycling
Most recently, he has co-written a new book alongside Robert Hicks, health and fitness deputy editor at Cycling Weekly, titled The Pain-Free ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
8
Cycle-pathic: my three cycling lessons
More than one fresh-faced rookie, however, has confided that when it comes to bikes "there is so much to learn". To an extent this is true, but it ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
9
Cycle-pathic: Me and My Bike ... Alasdair MacLennan, president of …
Alasdair could arguably write a book many times over on his epic adventures in the world of cycling. Here he shares some of those wonderful ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
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Cycle-pathic: are the wheels coming off the cycling revolution?
In the months since I started this Cycle-pathic column (and indeed pretty much ever since I began contributing to the sports pages of this ... «Herald Scotland, May 15»

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