paraphrenia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
  2. The state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder.

Word forms

paraphrenia paraphrenias

Etymology

From para- + -phrenia.

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