单词 | heteropathy |
释义 | heteropathy|-ˈɒpəθɪ| [f. Gr. ἑτερο- hetero- + -παθεια, f. πάθος suffering.] 1. Med. = allopathy: opp. to homœopathy.
1847Craig, Heteropathy, the method of attempting to remove one disease by inducing a different one. 2. Path. (See quot.)
1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Heteropathy..Berthold's term for the form of idiosyncrasy in which the organic susceptibility behaves itself in a different fashion to the normal in the presence of any irritation. 3. Antipathy or aversion excited by suffering: opp. to sympathy. (nonce-use.)
1874Miss Cobbe in Theol. Rev. Jan. 74 At the sight of pain animals generally feel an impulse to destroy rather than to help. This emotion will be indicated by the term Heteropathy. 1881― Duties Wom. iv. 118 It is astonishing and horrible to witness how the deep-seated frightful human passion, which I have elsewhere named Heteropathy, develops itself in such circumstances. |

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