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- noun Plural form of
psychopathy .
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Examples
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Recently on Offworld, Ragdoll Metaphysics columnist Jim Rossignol takes the occasion of J.G. Ballard's death to argue that, with his future of boredom -- of calm consumer choices and deadened emotions -- realised, that videogames are an ideal safe excursion to violence and excitement, outlets for Ballard's "vast systems of competing psychopathies."
Boing Boing 2009
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Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active deviants of approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5% other psychopathies and characteropathies.) The essential psychopath is at the center of the web.
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Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active deviants of approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5% other psychopathies and characteropathies.)
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Having said that, we must also tell you that we are deeply disappointed by the failures of fundamentalist Christianity, Islam and Judaism that enforce sexist neuroticism, cruel traditions and immature religious ideologies on women and then claim their crippling psychopathies are God's will for everyone.
A FEAR OF WOMEN 2006
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The future will be a huge Darwinian struggle between competing psychopathies.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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No epidemiological or other study can justify such a flare of psychopathies in such a short period - what was this shocking factor?
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No epidemiological or other study can justify such a flare of psychopathies in such a short period - what was this shocking factor?
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Paying them attention only enables their twisted psychopathies.
Neptunus Lex 2008
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The future is going to be a struggle between vast systems of competing psychopathies, part of a desperate attempt to escape from a rational world and the boredom of consumerism. "
Johann Hari: Was J.G. Ballard a Prophet of Doom -- or the Future? 2009
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