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What is the noun for psychopaths?

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psychopath
  1. (figuratively) A person with no moral conscience who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
  2. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
  3. (obsolete) A person diagnosed with any mental disorder.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent psychopath, trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed.”
      “The mere thought of that psychopath laying a finger on her at all made him cringe and shiver all over.”
      “The applicant might be a dangerous psychopath who only mixes with people of a similar disposition, yet is immensely popular within that group.”
psychopathic
  1. (dated) A psychopath.
psychopathics
  1. plural of psychopathic
psychopaths
  1. plural of psychopath
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Studying the statements of violent criminal psychopaths sheds light on their striking and specific vulnerability and emotional pain.”
      “Only about one per cent of the prison population, he calculates, are unreconstructed psychopaths who would beat you to a pulp for a fag-end.”
      “I found a wonderful woman in LA who was a criminal psychologist dealing with psychopaths.”
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