Meanings
plural psychopathologies
- countableuncountablemedicineThe study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
- countableA mental or behavioral disorder.
Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 911 more example
The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.
2019 October 28, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet^(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32424-9/fulltext), volume 394
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior
nounthe branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
- Ancient Greekψῡχο- (psūkho-)
- Englishpsycho-
- Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
- Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Frenchpathologie
- Englishpathology
- Englishpsychopathology
Translations
Catalan psicopatologia
- psicopatologiastudy of mental illness
Chinese Mandarin 精神病理學 /精神病理学
- 精神病理學 /精神病理学 (jīngshénbìnglǐxué)study of mental illness
Czech psychopatologie
- psychopatologiestudy of mental illness
Danish psykopatologi
- psykopatologistudy of mental illness
Dutch psychopathologie
- psychopathologiestudy of mental illness
Estonian psühhopatoloogia
- psühhopatoloogiastudy of mental illness
Finnish psykopatologia
- psykopatologiastudy of mental illness
French psychopathologie
- psychopathologiestudy of mental illness
German Psychopathologie
- Psychopathologiestudy of mental illness
Greek ψυχοπαθολογία
- ψυχοπαθολογία (psychopathología)study of mental illness
Hungarian pszichopatológia
- pszichopatológiastudy of mental illness
Korean 정신병리학
- 정신병리학 (jeongsinbyeongnihak)study of mental illness
Polish psychopatologia
- psychopatologiastudy of mental illness
Portuguese psicopatologia
- psicopatologiastudy of mental illness
Romanian psihopatologie
- psihopatologiestudy of mental illness
Russian психопатоло́гия
- психопатоло́гия (psixopatológija)study of mental illness
Spanish psicopatología
- psicopatologíastudy of mental illness
Swedish psykopatologi
- psykopatologistudy of mental illness
Thai จิตพยาธิวิทยา
- จิตพยาธิวิทยาstudy of mental illness
Turkish psikopatoloji
- psikopatolojistudy of mental illness
Ukrainian психопатоло́гія
- психопатоло́гія (psyxopatolóhija)study of mental illness
Welsh seicopatholeg
- seicopatholegstudy of mental illness
Cite this entry
psychopathology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychopathology
“psychopathology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychopathology. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “psychopathology,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychopathology.
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