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say it: sahy-KAH-puh-thee
psychopathy is a noun meaning "any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention". It is pronounced /saɪˈkɑpəθi/ — sahy-KAH-puh-thee. It carries one recorded sense.
any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for psychopathy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.