psychopath vs sociopath

psychopath

Definitions

noun

  1. someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

Examples

One of the most significant concerns presented by opponents is that suicide ideation is most likely a symptom of psychopathology.

Even if the physician recognizes the psychopathology, the patient may reject the diagnosis.

The results of the current study also strengthen claims that psychopathy is a neurocognitive disorder that is apparent across the lifespan.

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sociopath

Definitions

noun

  1. someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

Examples

Anyway, the most obvious distinction is that the sociopath would presumably remove the implant if he could, while most of us would not want to anaesthetise the agenbite of inwit, if this were somehow possible.

Michael Ontkean performs the funniest "striptease" bit in the history of film, and the endearingly sociopathic “Hansen Brothers” have to be seen to be believed.

Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy".

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