psychopathologicadj.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˌpaθəˈlɒdʒᵻk/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˌpæθəˈlɑdʒᵻk/ = psychopathological adj.
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1891 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 636 One can thus see the links which form the psycho-pathologic chain of human life, at one end of which we may find insanity and at the other criminality.
1954 Science 19 Mar. 360/2 The opossum..exhibits a catatonic-like syndrome which illustrates all the concomitants of the catatonic syndrome seen in man in psychopathologic conditions.
1992 P. Sandblom Creativity & Disease 36 Greene indicates essential symptoms of the two psychopathologic temperaments which prevail in creative individuals—the melancholy of the manic-depressive and the panic fear of the schizoid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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