pathic

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It also reduces Obama to a product, which is why he's mostly appealing to younger voters and / or, well, to "attitudinal" emotionally-driven socio-'pathic 'or counter-society interests (can't prove anything, nothing's ever specific, just that "it" has to be done away with, replaced, and this "new" thing done or implanted, etc.).

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  1. Of or pertaining to disease.
  2. A male that submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. B. Jonson.

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  • It Eileen and the scientists are right, and it is simply a 'narco-pathic response to elements unknown,' I could influence your perceptions by giving you expectations I feel as if the blood has been drained from my body. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 06 - June 1996
  • It's a socio-pathic obsession and shame on Sanders for carrying his dirty water. —  Arkansas News
  • We all agree that Joseph is a socio-pathic helenhill11111 —  New Statesman
  • The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously. —  Planet Atheism
  • It also reduces Obama to a product, which is why he's mostly appealing to younger voters and / or, well, to "attitudinal" emotionally-driven socio-'pathic 'or counter-society interests (can't prove anything, nothing's ever specific, just that "it" has to be done away with, replaced, and this "new" thing done or implanted, etc.). —  Hot Air » Top Picks
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  1. from Greek παθικός, taken in sense of ‘pertaining to disease,’ from πάθος, disease: see pathos.
  2. from Latin pathicus, from Greek παθικός (see def.), literally remaining passive, from παθεῑν, 2d aorist of πάσχειν, suffer, endure: see pathos.
 

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