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Definition of Psychopath

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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath').

Definition of Psychopath

1. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder. ¹

3. Noun. A person who has no moral conscience. ¹

4. Noun. A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psychopath

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychopath

Literary usage of Psychopath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dostoievsky, His Life and Literary Activity: A Biographical Sketch by Evgenīĭ Solovʹev, Eugeniĭ Andreevich Solov'ev (1916)
"... constant poverty and literary bondage— The influence of city life—His urban characters and subjects — Dostoievsky as psychopathologist and psychopath. ..."

2. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"The psychopath- ologist must study the family as a biological problem. The ostensible practices of the family, that is, the "good manners," assumed for the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"The depressed type of psychopath tends chiefly to suicide. ... The impulsive psychopath in crime tends mostly to theft, or running away, which in older ..."

4. The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African by Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Maresa de Beer (2005)
"Dirk Coetzee is regarded as a psychopath by an advocate in the Lothar Neethling ... Paradoxically Eugene de Kock, who is deemed to be a psychopath (Mail ..."

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