sociopathy

Noun

Meaning

sociopathy (countable and uncountable, plural sociopathies)

(psychiatry) The property of being a sociopath—a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology.
Synonym: (loosely) psychopathy

Examples

The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy. Adam Roberts

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. Martha Stout

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on. Martha Stout

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush. Martha Stout

Anyway, punching an elementary school teacher is more an act of sociopathy than anything requiring toughness, as there was no chance that the teacher would have punched back. Source: Internet

Yes, it’s beautiful and emotional at any age (there’s a scene toward the end with an incinerator that should be used as a sociopathy test, because if you don’t cry, there’s an issue). Source: Internet

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