SCHIZOPHRENIA

schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox

(noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

schizophrenia (countable and uncountable, plural schizophrenias)

(pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

(informal, figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

Usage notes

• In popular usage, the term is often confused with dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder).

Synonyms

• dementia praecox

• schizophrenic disorder

• schizophrenic psychosis

Hyponyms

• borderline schizophrenia

• catatonic schizophrenia

• disorganized schizophrenia

• hebephrenic schizophrenia

• latent schizophrenia

• paranoid schizophrenia

• paraphrenic schizophrenia

• pseudoneurotic schizophrenia

• reactive schizophrenia

• object schizophrenia

Source: Wiktionary



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