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-pathy
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “suffering,” “feeling” (
antipathy; sympathy); in compound words of modern formation, often used with the meaning “morbid affection,” “disease” (
arthropathy; deuteropathy; neuropathy; psychopathy), and hence used also in names of systems or methods of treating disease (
allopathy; homeopathy; hydropathy; osteopathy). Cf.
-path, -pathia. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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