sociopathy
The property of being a sociopath, a person showing antisocial behavior as part of…The property of being a sociopath, a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology compassing mainly antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder and/or other Cluster B personality disorders or dark triad traits.
» Yanni takes sociopathy to the extreme.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The property of being a sociopath, a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology compassing mainly antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder and/or other Cluster B personality disorders or dark triad traits.
Soziopathie
социопа́тияsociopátija
Examples
3 sentencesYanni takes sociopathy to the extreme.
Is sociopathy disproportionally prevalent in females?
Utilizing infinite scrolling on your website is a sign of either ignorance or sociopathy.
Translations
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Origin
From socio- + -pathy.From socio- + -pathy.
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Forms
plural: sociopathies| Singular | sociopathy |
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Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable