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psychopathy

[sahy-kop-uh-thee]
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noun, plural psy·chop·a·thies. Psychiatry.
  1. a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
  2. any mental disease.

Origin of psychopathy

First recorded in 1840–50; psycho- + -pathy
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Related Words for psychopathy

phobia, madness, delusion, dotage, dementia, absurdity, hysteria, disturbance, craziness, lunacy, neurosis, derangement, illusion, aberration, unbalance, mania, frenzy, irrationality, distraction, folly

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Historical Examples of psychopathy

  • Others are founded in obsession that form the ancill of psychopathy.

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    Joseph Collins

  • Whether he saw anything or not belongs among the obscurer questions of psychopathy.

British Dictionary definitions for psychopathy

psychopathy

noun psychiatry
  1. another name for psychopathic personality
  2. any mental disorder or disease
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Word Origin and History for psychopathy
n.

1847, from psycho- + -pathy, on model of German psychopathie.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
psychopathy in Medicine

psychopathy

[sī-kŏp′ə-thē]
n.
  1. Mental disorder, especially when manifested by antisocial behavior.
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