English
Etymology
From socio- + -path. First use appears c. 1914.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/, /ˈsəʊ.ʃə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
Noun
sociopath (plural sociopaths)
- 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
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: sociopaat (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
- Japanese: ソシオパス (soshiopasu), 反社会性パーソナリティ障害 (はんしゃかいせいパーソナリティしょうがい, hanshakaisei pāsonariti shōgai)
- Korean: 소시오패스 (sosiopaeseu), 반사회성 인격장애(反社會性人格障礙) (bansahoeseong in'gyeokjang'ae)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sosyopat (ku) m or f
- Macedonian: социопа́т m (sociopát)
- Polish: socjopata (pl) 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)
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