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sociopath

[ soh-see-uh-path, soh-shee- ]

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.


sociopath

/ ˌsəʊsɪˈɒpəθɪ; ˈsəʊsɪəˌpæθ /

noun

  1. psychiatry another name for psychopath
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sociopath

  1. Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others. ( Compare psychopath .)
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Derived Forms

  • sociopathy, noun
  • ˌdzˈ貹ٳ󾱳, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • c··貹ٳi adjective
  • ··DZ··ٳ [soh-see-, op, -, uh, -thee, soh-shee-], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sociopath1

First recorded in 1940–45; socio- + -path
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After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”

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All these people follow Trump, a man who is incapable of empathy, so much so that many high-profile psychologists have argued that he should be considered a sociopath, despite not consenting to a formal diagnosis.

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Legislators zeroed in on Maher’s statements before she became head of NPR, in which she called Trump “a deranged racist sociopath” and described the terms “boy” and “girl” as “erasing language for nonbinary people.”

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“Even in the department they work in, you have to keep an eye over your shoulder. A sociopath does pretty well in this environment, but you don’t want too many sociopaths in the same department.”

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It is, unfortunately, the heyday of the harmful sociopath and the abusive clinical narcissist.

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