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pa⋅thog⋅ra⋅phy

  [puh-thog-ruh-fee]
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–noun, plural ‑phies.
a biography that focuses on the negative elements of its subject.
Origin:
1910–20 for an earlier sense; popularized by Joyce Carol Oates, U.S. writer
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pa·thog·ra·phy   (pā-thŏg'rə-fē)   
n.  

  1. The retrospective study, often by a physician, of the possible influence and effects of disease on the life and work of a historical personage or group.

  2. A style of biography that overemphasizes the negative aspects of a person's life and work, such as failure, unhappiness, illness, and tragedy. "[It] falls into pathography's technique of emphasizing the sensational underside of its subject's life" (Joyce Carol Oates).

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pathography pa·thog·ra·phy (pā-thŏg'rə-fē)
n.
The retrospective study, often by a physician, of the possible influence and effects of disease on the life and work of a historical personage or group.

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