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psychopath
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n. A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse. [Back-formation from psychopathic.] |
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| psychopath | |
noun | |
| someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath') [syn: sociopath] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
psychopath [(seye-kuh-path)]
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. (Compare sociopath.)
[Chapter:] Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
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