Associations to the word «Psychopath»

Wiktionary

PSYCHOPATH, noun. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
PSYCHOPATH, noun. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
PSYCHOPATH, noun. A person who has no moral conscience.
PSYCHOPATH, noun. A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.

Dictionary definition

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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath').

Wise words

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