Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pathographical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: patho-graph-i-cal
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of pathographic.

Example Sentences

"Since pathographical writing tends to be so ephemeral, students of pathography will find extremely helpful the special collection developed by Jan Willms at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana."
"On the one hand he rejects—in an allusion to Lange—the pathographical application of “crude categories” to such magnificent poetry: “It is quite dangerous to be quick about declaring something 'incomprehensible', therefore 'crazy', to call something void, trivial, farfetched, confused"."
"Matthias Bormuth (2013) suggests that Jaspers' analysis of Strindberg, Van Gogh, Swedenborg, and Hölderlin is related to a pathographical view—that is, a type of biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life."

Questions

What does pathographical mean?: Alternative form of pathographic.

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