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pathography

American

[puh-thog-ruh-fee] / pəˈθɒg rə fi /

noun

a biography that focuses on the negative elements of its subject.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

pathographies

plural

Etymology

Origin of pathography

1910–20 for an earlier sense; popularized by Joyce Carol Oates, U.S. writer

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