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psychopathy
[ sahy-kop-uh-thee ]
noun
- 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.
- any mental disease.
psychopathy
/ saɪˈkɒpəθɪ /
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Origin of psychopathy1
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Example Sentences
He combines the shirtless self-love of Alex Rodriguez with the vicious psychopathy of Robert Mugabe.
He intended The Collector to be a commentary on class, not psychopathy.
Psychopathy, more or less, is the clinical term for sociopathy, and the two are often used interchangeably.
One can almost envision a dark party game that involves ranking our favorite historical figures on a scale of psychopathy.
Whether he saw anything or not belongs among the obscurer questions of psychopathy.
Others are founded in obsession that form the ancill of psychopathy.
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