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
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.
• In popular usage, the term is often confused with dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder).
• dementia praecox
• schizophrenic disorder
• schizophrenic psychosis
• borderline schizophrenia
• catatonic schizophrenia
• disorganized schizophrenia
• hebephrenic schizophrenia
• latent schizophrenia
• paranoid schizophrenia
• paraphrenic schizophrenia
• pseudoneurotic schizophrenia
• reactive schizophrenia
• object schizophrenia
Source: Wiktionary
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
