psychopathy

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ -pathy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪˈkɑpəθi/
• IPA^(key): /saɪˈkɒpəθi/

Noun

psychopathy (countable and uncountable, plural psychopathies)

1. A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.

Derived terms

• psychopath
• psychopathic

Related terms

• psycho
• psychopathology
• psychosis
• sociopathy

Translations

personality disorder

• Afrikaans: psigopatie
• Albanian: psikopati (sq) f
• Asturian: sicopatía f
• Azerbaijani: psixopatiya
• Bashkir: психопатия f (psixopatiya)
• Basque: psikopatia
• Belarusian: псіхапатыя (psixapatyja)
• Bulgarian: психопатия f (psihopatija)
• Catalan: psicopatia (ca) f
• Czech: psychopatie f
• Danish: psykopati
• Dutch: psychopathie (nl) f
• Esperanto: psikopatio
• French: psychopathie (fr) f
• German: Psychopathie f
• Greek: ψυχοπάθεια (el) f (psychopátheia)
• Hebrew: פְּסִיכוֹפַּתְיָה (he) f (psikhopatya)
• Hindi: मनोविकृति (hi) f (manovikŕti)
• Icelandic: siðblinda f
• Ido: psikopateso (io)
• Indonesian: psikopati (id)
• Irish: síceapaite f
• Italian: psicopatia (it) f
• Japanese: 精神病 (せいしんびょう, seishinbyō)
• Kazakh: психопатия (psixopatiä)
• Korean: 사이코패스 (saikopaeseu)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: psychopathia f
• Latvian: psihopātija f
• Lithuanian: psichopatija f
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• Luxembourgish: Psychopathie f
• Macedonian: психопатија f (psihopatija)
• Malay: psikopati
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykopati m

  Nynorsk: psykopati m

• Persian: روان‌آزاری (fa)
• Polish: psychopatia (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicopatia (pt) f
• Romanian: psihopatie (ro) f
• Russian: психопа́тия (ru) f (psixopátija), (mental health jargon) психопати́я (ru) f (psixopatíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: психопа̀тија f

  Roman: psihopàtija (sh) f

• Slovak: psychopatia f
• Slovene: psihopatija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: psychopatija f

  Upper Sorbian: psychopatija f

• Spanish: psicopatía f
• Swedish: psykopati (sv) c
• Tatar: психопатия f (psixopatiyä)
• Thai: โรคทางจิต (rôhk taang jìt)
• Turkish: psikopati (tr)
• Ukrainian: психопатія f (psyxopatija)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: психопатия (uz) (psixopatiya)

  Roman: psixopatiya (uz)

• Welsh: seicopathi m