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noun 
  1. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitiveness, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
  2. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
  3. A person who has no moral conscience.
  4. Popular A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
Translations: 
  • German: Psychopath , Psychopatin
  • Italian: psicopatico , psicopatica
Etymology: :From psychopatisch, from psyche "soul" + pathos "suffering".


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