Psychology vs Pathological - What's the difference?
psychology | pathological |
(uncountable) The study of the human mind.
(uncountable) The study of human behavior.
(uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
(countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
* 1970 , Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth , page 8:
* 1969 , Victor Alba, The Latin Americans , page 42:
(medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
(medicine) Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
(mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
(computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
As a noun psychology
is (uncountable) the study of the human mind.As an adjective pathological is
(medicine) pertaining to pathology.psychology
English
(wikipedia psychology)Noun
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.