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Sociopath vs Sadistic - What's the difference?

sociopath | sadistic |

As a noun sociopath

is a person with an antisocial personality disorder, exhibiting antisocial behavior that usually is the result of social and environmental factors in the person's early life.

As an adjective sadistic is

delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.

sociopath

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with an antisocial personality disorder, exhibiting antisocial behavior that usually is the result of social and environmental factors in the person's early life.

    • Derived terms

    * sociopathy * sociopathic

    See also

    * psychopath * (Psychopathy) * (Antisocial personality disorder)

    sadistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
  • Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.

    • Related terms

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