pathy
Disease or feeling
Pathy is a combining form meaning feeling, suffering, or disease.
It appears at the end of words: sympathy (feeling with another), empathy (feeling into another's experience), apathy (absence of feeling), telepathy (feeling at a distance).
In medical terms, it often indicates disease or disorder: neuropathy, psychopathy, cardiomyopathy.
Considerate, caring disposition
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
- caringShowing kind concern
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
solicitude · heartfelt · gentleness · consideration · sensitivity · concern · fellow-feeling · soft-heartedness
Treatment opposing disease symptoms
- myopathyDisorder of muscle tissue
- radiculopathyCompressed spinal nerve condition
- retinopathyDisease of eye's photosensitive layer
- encephalopathyDisease impairing brain function
Cause of ongoing distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
pain · torment · agony · misery · woe · tribulation · hardship · adversity
Freedom from emotional bias
- coldnessLow temperature state
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- numbnessLoss of sensation
- unconcernAbsence of worry
aloofness · impassivity · stoicism · disinterest · insensibility · unfeeling · callousness
kindness
Considerate, caring disposition
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
- caringShowing kind concern
mercy · solicitude · heartfelt · gentleness · consideration · sensitivity · concern · fellow-feeling · soft-heartedness · big-heartedness
allopathy
Treatment opposing disease symptoms
- myopathyDisorder of muscle tissue
- radiculopathyCompressed spinal nerve condition
- retinopathyDisease of eye's photosensitive layer
affliction
Cause of ongoing distress
sorrow · pain · torment · agony · misery · woe · tribulation · hardship · adversity · passion
dispassion
Freedom from emotional bias
- coldnessLow temperature state
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- numbnessLoss of sensation
unconcern · aloofness · impassivity · stoicism · disinterest · insensibility · unfeeling · callousness
- off the beaten pathUnconventional or isolated location
- career pathProgression through occupations
- bike pathDesignated route for cyclists
- flight pathPlanned aerial trajectory
- path of least resistanceCourse requiring least effort
- beaten pathMuch-traveled route
path, pathos, pathetic, pathetically, apathy, apathetic, apathetically, sympathy, sympathetic