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psychopathy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun psychopathy has 1 sense
- psychopathy(n = noun.state) mental disease, mental illness - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention; Array is a kind of mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
has particulars: megalomania, insanity, psychosis
Derived form adjective psychopathic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
psychopathy, n. [Psycho- + Gr. , .].
Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
psychopathy
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
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