'Psychopathy' definitions:
Definition of 'psychopathy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention [syn: mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy] [ant: mental health]
Definition of 'Psychopathy'
From: GCIDE
- Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. ?, ?.] (Med.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. -- {Psy`cho*path"ic}, a. -- {Psy*chop"a*thist}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'psychopathy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- arteriosclerotic psychosis,
- certifiability,
- character disorder,
- dementia paralytica,
- derangement,
- dipsomania,
- distraction,
- drug addiction,
- folie du doute,
- functional psychosis,
- general paralysis,
- general paresis,
- insaneness,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- metabolic psychosis,
- moral insanity,
- neurosis,
- organic psychosis,
- paralytic dementia,
- pathological drunkenness,
- personality disorder,
- presenile dementia,
- prison psychosis,
- psychopathia,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychopathic condition,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychosis,
- senile dementia,
- senile psychosis,
- senility,
- sexual pathology,
- sexual psychopathy,
- situational psychosis,
- sociopathy,
- syphilitic paresis,
- toxic psychosis,
- unbalance