anethopath

English

Etymology

Coined by American psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “an- + etho- + -path?”)

Noun

anethopath (plural anethopaths)

  1. (obsolete) psychopath, sociopath

References

  1. ^ Sydney Maughs (April 1941) “Concept of Psychopathy and Psychopathic Personality: Its Evolution and Historical Development”, in Journal of Criminal Psychopathology‎[1], volume 2, number 4, page 493

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