Pathic vs Empathic - What's the difference?
pathic | empathic |
The passive male partner in anal intercourse.
*1810 , Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810:
*:In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic .
* 1959 : William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
* 1975 : Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
* 1976 : Robert Nye, Falstaff
Showing or expressing empathy.
(science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.
As adjectives the difference between pathic and empathic
is that pathic is passive; suffering while empathic is showing or expressing empathy.As a noun pathic
is the passive male partner in anal intercourse.pathic
English
Noun
(en noun)- And enough of these gooey saints with a look of pathic dismay as if they getting fucked up the ass and try not to pay any mind.
- But in those days I was Paul Dempster, who had been made to forget it and take a name from the side of a barn, and be the pathic of a perverted drug-taker.
- Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic , a male varlet, a masculine whore.
