Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is affected with a personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior.
Wiktionary
- n. A person with an antisocial personality disorder, exhibiting antisocial behavior that usually is the result of social and environmental factors in the person's early life.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
Etymologies
- Coined c. 1930 by George Everett Partridge, American psychologist; socio- + -path (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I use the term sociopath, because I want people to understand that we're talking not only about people who can be quite violent, but also about people who are not and never will be violent.”
“Some have used the word "sociopath" to describe her, but the term loses some of its meaning in Rihannsu culture, where one is expected to reach out one's hand and take what one wants … as the Travelers did.”
“I'm not sure you understand what a "sociopath" is ...”
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“The best way to protect yourself from a sociopath is to avoid him, to refuse any kind of contact or communication.”
“A sociopath is a sociopath, whether “local” or “foreign”.”
“But people use the terms sociopath and psychopath interchangeably.”
“Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game.”
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“There's no universally agreed upon difference between the word sociopath and psychopath.”
“The a$$hole that did this is classified as a sociopath.”
“The labelling itself, 'psychopath' is a negative term, having heavy connotations of 'cannibalistic axe-murderer', and I, myself, prefer the term sociopath, which has a much more glamorous feel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sociopath’.
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
Bring forth the cathartic illumination on malignant,maniacal,medical,menage a trios and more egotists stymie
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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kickassery
words that kick ass, in the non-literal sense
keraunophilia, vituperative, archnemesis, megafauna, Brontotherium, haruspex, vainglory, immanent, tarasque, aurochs, fraktur, photophore and 75 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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wordsmith III: revenge of wordie
sedimentary, igneous, segment, surfeit, unctuous, magma, garble, ransack, concubine, coincide, metamorphic, clastic and 208 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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Psych
dissonance, aphasia, psychotic, schizoid, schizotypal, cognition, sublimation, oedipal, self-actualization, psychoanalysis, humanist, freudian and 51 more...
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
morbidity, disease, malady, ailment, oneirophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, depersonalization, schizoaffective, neuropsychiatry, chronic, obsessive and 86 more...
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I love these words
Self-explanitory
defenestration, schadenfreude, adept, nebulous, epicaricacy, lovecraftian, phantasmagoria, syzygy, neurological, sociopath, dapper, jugulation and 22 more...
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lisejane's Words
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auteur's Words
shame, fail, hydrogenous, silicon, frap, frag, owned, prettymuch, apothecary, sucks to be you, pretentious, quantum and 75 more...
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