psychopathology
Americannoun
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the science or study of mental disorders.
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the conditions and processes of a mental disorder.
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a pathological deviation from normal or efficient behavior; psychosis.
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It’s tempting to dismiss the latest hot summer fad as the product of a postadolescent psychopathology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
A new psychopathology is identified — the Gershwin complex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Author Amitav Ghosh has correctly given this ailment of imaginative deficiency a name, redolent of psychopathology: Our inability to apprehend the reality of ecological catastrophe is nothing less than “derangement.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Maybe, even, they are stand-ins, part of the psychopathology of everyday life.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022
It is our thesis that the psychopathology of such murderers forms at least one specific syndrome which we shall describe.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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