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psychopathic personality

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables
psy-cho-pathic per-son-al-i-ty
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic personality’ was once widely used but was superseded by ‘sociopathic personality’ to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now ‘antisocial personality disorder’ is the preferred term)

Synonyms

antisocial personality disorder sociopathic personality

Questions

What does psychopathic personality mean?
a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic personality’ was once widely used but was superseded by ‘sociopathic personality’ to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now ‘antisocial personality disorder’ is the preferred term)

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