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psychopath.

A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/Received-Pronunciation/ˈsaɪkəpæθ/Received-Pronunciation/ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθ/Canada, General-American[ˈsɐɪkoʊˌpæθ]Canada, General-American
  1. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.

  2. A person with no moral conscience.

    figuratively
  3. A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.

    figuratively
  4. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.

  5. A person diagnosed with any mental disorder.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From German psychopathisch, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).

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