Psychopath vs Insane - What's the difference?
psychopath | insane |
A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating]], glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, [[delusion of grandeur, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
A person who has no moral conscience.
A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
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Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Causing insanity or madness.
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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As a noun psychopath
is a person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating]], glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, [[delusion of grandeur|delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.As an adjective insane is
exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted .psychopath
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(Psychopathy)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sociopathDerived terms
* psychopathic * psychopathyinsane
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Adjective
(en adjective)- What is the cause of insanity?
Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that,
but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break
down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In
fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed
to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins,
and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling
part of the story—the other half of the people who go in-
sane' apparently have nothing organically wrong with
their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their
brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered micro-
scopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as
yours and mine.
Why do these people go ' insane ?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!