sociopath

English

Etymology

From socio- +‎ -path. First use appears c. 1914.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.si.əˌpæθ/, /ˈsoʊ.si.oʊˌpæθ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sociopath (plural sociopaths)

1. A person with an antisocial personality disorder.
   • 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Keith Rabois, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

     And Keith Rabois, an early executive at PayPal and LinkedIn, who in 2016 called Trump a “sociopath”, pledged $1mn to his campaign.

Derived terms

• sociopathy
• sociopathic

Translations

person with antisocial personality disorder

• Belarusian: сацыяпа́т m (sacyjapát), сацыяпа́тка f (sacyjapátka)
• Bulgarian: социопа́т (bg) m (sociopát)
• Catalan: sociòpata (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反社會者／反社会者 (fǎnshèhuìzhě), 反社會人士／反社会人士 (fǎnshèhuì rénshì), 反社會人格者／反社会人格者 (fǎnshèhuì réngé zhě)

• Czech: sociopat (cs) m
• Dutch: psychopaat (nl) m
• Estonian: sotsiopaat
• Finnish: sosiopaatti (fi)
• French: sociopathe (fr) m or f
• German: Soziopath (de) m, Soziopathin (de) f
• Greek: κοινωνιοπαθής m or f (koinoniopathís)
• Hungarian: szociopata
• Irish: sochapatach m
• Italian: sociopatico m, sociopatica f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sosyopat (ku) m or f

• Macedonian: социопа́т m (sociopát)
• Polish: socjopata m, socjopatka f
• Portuguese: sociopata (pt) m or f
• Romanian: sociopat m
• Russian: социопа́т (ru) m (sociopát), социопа́тка f (sociopátka)
• Slovak: sociopat m
• Spanish: sociópata (es) m or f
• Swedish: sociopat (sv) c
• Ukrainian: соціопа́т m (sociopát), соціопа́тка f (sociopátka)

See also

• psychopath

Further reading

• psychopathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• antisocial personality disorder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia