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Etymology

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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

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anethopath (plural anethopaths)

  1. (obsolete) psychopath, sociopath

References

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  1. ^ Sydney Maughs (1941 April) “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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