English Explanatory Dictionary

schizophrenia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
  2. A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.
  3. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

Pronunciation

/ˌskɪtsəˈfɹiniə/ /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹɛniə/ /skɪtsə(ʊ)ˈfɹiːniə/ en-us-schizophrenia.ogg

Word forms

schizophrenia schizophrenias

Etymology

From German Schizophrenie (coined by Eugen Bleuler), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + English -ia. A combination of schizo- + -phrenia.

Synonyms

dementia praecox schizophrenic disorder schizophrenic psychosis

Related words

frantic frenetic frenzied frenzy phrenology schism schist schizencephaly schizothymia schizoid personality disorder paranoid personality disorder schizotypal personality disorder autism

Derived words

antischizophrenia borderline schizophrenia catatonic schizophrenia disorganized schizophrenia hebephrenic schizophrenia latent schizophrenia nonschizophrenia object schizophrenia paranoid schizophrenia paraphrenic schizophrenia pseudoschizophrenia reactive schizophrenia Russophrenia schizophrene schizophrenese schizophreniac schizophrenialike schizophrenia spectrum schizophrenic schizophreniform schizophrenogenesis schizophrenogenic sluggish schizophrenia
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