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1Knowledge or study of the passions or emotions, especially the facial expression of them.
2rare The knowledge or study of the signs and symptoms by which diseases may be distinguished; a description of such signs and symptoms.
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), writer. From patho- + -gnomy, after pathognomic.