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psychopathy

[ sahy-kop-uh-thee ]

noun

Psychiatry.
plural psychopathies.
  1. 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.
  2. any mental disease.


psychopathy

/ ²õ²¹ÉªËˆ°ìÉ’±èəθɪ /

noun

  1. another name for psychopathic personality
  2. any mental disorder or disease
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of psychopathy1

First recorded in 1840–50; psycho- + -pathy
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Like with the psychopathy scale: It's a continuous scale with no sharp cutoff point, but you can see the different life trajectories.

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Dementia usually means memory problems, but frontotemporal dementia with a loss of ability to empathize with other people can resemble other conditions with empathy problems in psychiatry, such as psychopathy.

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No one screaming lies, demonizing huge swaths of Americans as "enemies" or "poison," or running through the behavioral checklist for psychopathy and narcissism.

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We can plainly see Trump’s narcissism and psychopathy grow more malignant as the film progresses.

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He described himself as having been “a grinning, brooding young criminal psychopath in defiantly willing bondage to his psychopathy.â€

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