path
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Condolence and the pathology lab share one root
The picture Something that happened outside travels into your chest and is felt there as it is. Only what comes in changes. path comes inside and is felt; graph stays outside as a mark.
Where the picture shows up in path
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Grief felt with someone
Please accept my sympathy.
pliːz əkˈsept maɪ ˈsɪmpəθi
Please accept my sympathy.
A mourner's crying crossing your doorway and sitting heavy inside your own chest.
sym(together) + path(feeling) = feeling it with them.
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Feeling from inside their place
That nurse has real empathy for patients.
ðæt nɜːrs hæz rɪəl ˈempəθi fɔːr ˈpeɪʃənts
That nurse has real empathy for patients.
Sitting at the bedside and going into the patient's sore spot to feel it from there.
em(into) + path(feeling) = feeling your way inside.
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Looking at the suffering inside
The lab sent the sample to pathology.
ðə læb sent ðə ˈsæmpəl tə pəˈθɑːlədʒi
The lab sent the sample to pathology.
A removed sliver laid under the microscope so the illness inside the body can be looked at.
path also means suffering — the study of what hurts.
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Nothing getting in
There was total apathy at the meeting.
ðer wəz ˈtoʊtəl ˈæpəθi ət ðə ˈmiːtɪŋ
There was total apathy at the meeting.
Words going back and forth while not one face moves and every chest stays shut.
a means without — without feeling.
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Feeling crossing a distance
Tell me what you need; I do not have telepathy.
tel miː wʌt juː niːd aɪ duː nɑːt hæv təˈlepəθi
Tell me what you need; I do not have telepathy.
No words, no gesture, yet you imagine the other person's thought arriving whole inside you.
tele(far) + path(feeling).
All of it in one picture
path is the picture of something outside getting in and being felt. Another's grief felt inside you is sympathy; stepping into their place and feeling from there is empathy. Nothing getting in at all is apathy, the place that studies the suffering already inside a body is pathology, and a feeling crossing a distance with no words is telepathy. So when a path word appears, ask what feeling came inside.