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Taxonomy vs Pathic - What's the difference?

taxonomy | pathic |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and pathic

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while pathic is the passive male partner in anal intercourse.

As an adjective pathic is

passive; suffering.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    pathic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • * 1975 : Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
  • 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.
  • * 1976 : Robert Nye, Falstaff
  • Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic , a male varlet, a masculine whore.

    See also

    * catamite

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • passive; suffering
  • (Webster 1913)

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