psychopathy

American  

[sahy-kop-uh-thee] / saɪˈkɒp ə θi /

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.

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psychopathy British  

/ saɪˈkɒpəθɪ /

noun

1. another name for psychopathic personality

2. any mental disorder or disease

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Etymology

Origin of psychopathy

First recorded in 1840–50; psycho- + -pathy

Example Sentences

Serial killers’ aberrant psychopathy and body count make them novel.

From Salon

Like with the psychopathy scale: It's a continuous scale with no sharp cutoff point, but you can see the different life trajectories.

From Salon

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.

From Science Daily

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

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times