criminotic

adjective

crim·​i·​not·​ic

: suffering from criminosis

a criminotic individual

: marked by criminosis

criminotic behavior

Word History

Etymology

from New Latin criminosis, after such pairs as New Latin hypnosis: English hypnotic

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