As nouns the difference between psychopathy and neurosis
is that psychopathy is a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder while neurosis is (pathology) a mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear.
psychopathy
Noun
(psychopathies)
A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.
Derived terms
* psychopath
* psychopathic
Related terms
* psycho
* psychopathology
* psychosis
* sociopathy
neurosis
Noun
(neuroses)
(pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear
* Usage note: This term is no longer used medically/professionally.
Usage notes
According to Wikipedia the term is no longer part of mainstream psychiatric terminology in the United States, though it continues to be employed in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in various other theoretical disciplines.
Derived terms
* aeroneurosis
* neurotic
* neuroticism
* psychoneurosis