different between pathology vs pathos

English

Etymology

From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek ????? (páthos, “disease”) and -????? (-logía, “study of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

pathology (usually uncountable, plural pathologies)

1. (medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
2. (clinical medicine) The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.

3. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

   Synonyms: abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis

Usage notes

Some house style guides for medical publications avoid the "illness" sense of pathology (“disease, state of ill health”) and replace it with pathosis. The rationale is that the -ology form should be reserved for the "study of disease" sense and for the medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians. This rationale drives similar usage preferences about etiology ("cause" sense versus "study of causes" sense), methodology ("methods" sense versus "study of methods" sense), and other -ology words.

Not all such natural usage can be purged gracefully, but the goal is to reserve the -ology form to its "study" sense when practical. Not all publications bother with this prescription, because most physicians don't do so in their own speech (and the context makes clear the sense intended).

Another limitation is that pathology (“illness”) has an adjectival form (pathologic), but the corresponding adjectival form of pathosis (pathotic) is idiomatically missing from English (defective declension), so pathologic is obligate for both senses ("diseased" and "related to the study of disease"); this likely helps keep the "illness" sense of pathology in natural use (as the readily retrieved noun counterpart to pathologic in the "diseased" sense).

Derived terms

Related terms

• pathologic
• pathological
• pathobiology
• pathophysiology

Translations

Further reading

• pathology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• logopathy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (páthos, “suffering”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe???o?s/, /?pæ??o?s/

Noun

pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)

1. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:

     His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.

   • 20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in

     Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.

2. (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
3. (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
4. (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
5. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pathos.

Related terms

• antipathy
• apathy
• bathos
• empathy
• pathetic
• patience
• patient
• pathology
• pathogen
• psychopathy
• sympathy

Translations

Further reading

• pathos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pathos in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pashto, Potash, potash, sophta

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• páthos, patos

Noun

pathos m (plural pathos)

1. pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)

Spanish

Noun

pathos m (plural pathos)

1. pathos