Psychopath vs. Empath — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Psychopath and Empath
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Psychopath
A person who engages in psychopathic behavior or is affected by antisocial personality disorder.
Empath
One who is highly sensitive to the feelings of others and has a high capacity for empathy
“He was also something of an empath, intuitively alert, it would seem, to what was going on behind those faces” (Roberta Smith).
Psychopath
A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
Empath
One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
Psychopath
(figurative) A person with no moral conscience.
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Empath
A person with extra-sensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.
Psychopath
(figurative) A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
Psychopath
A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
Psychopath
(obsolete) A person diagnosed with any mental disorder.
Psychopath
Someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
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