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psychopathically

psychopathically

9.9
Acting without guilt or concern for other people's feelings
  • adverb
  • /ˌsaɪ.kəˈpæθ.ɪ.kli/
translation icon : psicopáticamente
  • Her psychopathically cold demeanor made it difficult for others to connect with her emotionally.

But we need churches and and and and munders and and masjids and synagogues and we need them to behave non psychopathically.

Examples

  • Wilson, the US Public Health Service physician, painted a similarly harsh picture of the Jews, describing them once as "a highly inbred and psychopathically inclined race."

    Academic text (2011)

  • He spoke psychopathically, displaying no concern for how his words affected others.

  • The villain in the story acted psychopathically, showing a complete lack of remorse for his actions.

Synonyms

cold-bloodedly
vspsychopathically
1 8.4

In a calm, cruel way without feeling sorry

describes a general personality showing lack of empathy and absence of remorse
unsympathetically
vspsychopathically
1 6.6

Without showing care for someone's feelings

focuses on lacking empathy and remorse rather than merely being unsympathetic

Antonyms

empathetically
1 5.3

In a way that shows you understand and care about another person's feelings

Surface Forms

psychopathically positive

Morphology

psychopathically = psychopathic (transparent) = psychopath + ic + ally

Formed from the adjective 'psychopathic' with the adverbial suffix '-ally', so the manner-of action meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Psychopathically comes from the word psychopath, made of psyche 'mind' and pathos 'suffering' or 'disease'. A psychopath was seen as someone with a damaged mind who feels no guilt or care for others, so to act psychopathically is to behave without empathy or remorse.