Psycho
Psycho noun - A person judged to be legally or medically insane.
Usage example: a story based on a real-life psycho who had serious mother-son issues
Sociopath
Sociopath noun - 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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath').
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Psycho and sociopath are semantically related in psychopath topic. You can use "Psycho" instead a noun "Sociopath".
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Not to be confused with a character who's pathologically bad with technology, or made a psycho/sociopath by technology.
Source: Technopath - There's also the two fourteen-year-old girls who almost succeed in pinning the murder of an eight-year-old on a retarded neighbor — actually one girl was "normal" and the other was the psycho/sociopath who tortured the kid because it was funny and strangled him because he was gonna tell.
Source: Kids Are Cruel / Live-Action TV -
Psycho for Hire: Lawler, who is flat out nuts, a sociopath, and probably sadistic.
Source: Webcomic / White Noise
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