Psychopath
noun
1.
a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
noun
1.
a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts Also called sociopath
psychopath psy·cho·path (sī’kə-pāth’)
n.
A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior.
psychopath [(seye-kuh-path)]
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. (Compare sociopath.)
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