Psychopath 601 Words You Need to Know
/ˈsaɪ.kə.pæθ/ (noun)
Definition
a person who is mentally ill or has severe mental disorders causing them to act very aggressively and violently without any empathy for others, lunatic, madman, sociopath, madwoman, psychotic, maniac, psycho, crazy
Example
Though psychopaths make up roughly 1% of the general male adult population, they make up between 15% and 25% of the males incarcerated in North American prison systems. That is, psychopaths are 15 to 25 times more likely to commit crimes that land them in prison than non-psychopaths.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Antonyms
Parts of speech
Noun: psychopathy
Adjective: psychopathic: insane, related to mental disease
Adverb: psychopathically
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