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suffering, feeling, emotion / damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality / therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment

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-pathy

Source Word

-pathy

IPA(Pronunciation)

/-pəθi/

Suffix

morpheme

suffering, feeling, emotion / damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality / therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment

Japanese Meaning

苦しみ、感情、情緒（例：empathy＝共感） / 損傷、疾患、障害、異常（例：neuropathy＝神経の障害） / 療法、治療、治癒法（例：homeopathy＝ホメオパシー、すなわち治療法）

In medical etymology, the suffix -pathy commonly signifies suffering, feeling, or emotion associated with a disease.

医学の語源では、接尾辞が「苦しみ」や「感覚」「感情」を意味し、病気に関連する状態を表すことが多いです。

Sense（1）

suffering, feeling, emotion

sympathy, antipathy, empathy

Sense（2）

damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality

neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy

Sense（3）

therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment

hydropathy, homeopathy, naturopathy