schizophrenia
Meanings
Plural: schizophrenias
Noun
- any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
- A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
- A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.
- Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.
Origin / Etymology
From German Schizophrenie (coined by Eugen Bleuler), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + English -ia.
Synonyms
dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
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