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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: socio- + -path (as in psychopath)

sociopath

 noun
     
Related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry
so‧ci‧o‧path [countable]
MP someone whose behaviour towards other people is considered unacceptable, strange, and possibly dangerous
—sociopathic adjective
[↪ psychopath]
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