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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to pathology.
2.
caused by or involving disease; morbid.
3.
caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition: a pathological liar.
4.
dealing with diseases: a pathological casebook.
Also, path·o·log·ic.
Related forms
path·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
non·path·o·log·ic, adjective
non·path·o·log·i·cal, adjective
non·path·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
post·path·o·log·ic, adjective
EXPANDpost·path·o·log·i·cal, adjective
sem·i·path·o·log·ic, adjective
sem·i·path·o·log·i·cal, adjective
sem·i·path·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
un·path·o·log·i·cal, adjective
un·path·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
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Pathological
has a plethora of syllables.
So is antidisestablishmentarianism. Does it mean:
| an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language. |
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
Example Sentences
- Though having a big mess is a far cry from pathological hoarding, such behavior appears to be on a continuum.
- One is a pathological smuggler of rare birds.
- But it's nothing like the wealth of pathological material you can extract from a preserved body.
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Word Origin & History
pathological
1680s, "pertaining to disease," formed in English from pathology. Sense of "worthy to be a subject of pathology, morbid, excessive" (e.g. pathological liar) is attested from 1845. Related: Pathologically.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
pathological path·o·log·i·cal (pāth'ə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) or path·o·log·ic (-ĭk)
adj.
Of or relating to pathology.
Relating to or caused by disease.
path'o·log'i·cal·ly adv.
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Computing Dictionary
pathological definition
1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, especially one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. An algorithm that can be broken by pathological inputs may still be useful if such inputs are very unlikely to occur in practice.
2. When used of test input, implies that it was purposefully engineered as a worst case. The implication in both senses is that the data is spectacularly ill-conditioned or that someone had to explicitly set out to break the algorithm in order to come up with such a crazy example.
3. Also said of an unlikely collection of circumstances. "If the network is down and comes up halfway through the execution of that command by root, the system may just crash." "Yes, but that's a pathological case." Often used to dismiss the case from discussion, with the implication that the consequences are acceptable, since they will happen so infrequently (if at all) that it doesn't seem worth going to the extra trouble to handle that case (see sense 1).
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