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Psychopath vs Mercenary - What's the difference?

psychopath | mercenary |

As nouns the difference between psychopath and mercenary

is that psychopath is a person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, 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 while mercenary is a person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain.

As an adjective mercenary is

motivated by private gain.

psychopath

English

(Psychopathy)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * sociopath

    Derived terms

    * psychopathic * psychopathy

    mercenary

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Motivated by private gain.
  • * Dryden
  • For God forbid I should my papers blot / With mercenary lines, with servile pen.

    Synonyms

    * (motivated by private gain) greedy, venal

    Noun

    (mercenaries)
  • A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    See also

    * soldier