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schizophrenia
  1. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
  2. (informal, figuratively) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Most defendants who were hospitalised had diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder.”
      “Discrimination may bring on loss of job, home, or friendship, precipitating a depressive episode or relapses of schizophrenia.”
      “No severe psychiatric illness was observed except for one patient with schizophrenia.”
schizoid
schizotypy
  1. (psychology) A continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states, to the more extreme end of psychosis (schizophrenia in particular).
schizothymia
  1. (psychiatry) A temperament characterised by elements of schizophrenia or schizoid personality disorder, while still within the bounds of normality.
schizophasia
  1. Word salad: a nonsensical, often repetitious assemblage of words, typical of mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
schizothymic
  1. A person resembling schizophrenia in personality, but within the bounds of normality.
schizophrenese
  1. The form of word salad uttered by schizophrenics.
schizophreniac
schizotypality
  1. (psychiatry) The state or quality of being schizotypal.
schizophrenogenesis
  1. The development of schizophrenia.
schizophrenigenesis
  1. (psychiatry) Schizophrenogenesis.
schizophasic
  1. (rare) One who exhibits schizophasia.
schizophrene
  1. (dated) A schizophrenic individual.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is worth mentioning a few remarks from Frostig's Das schizophrene Denken.”
      “Statistics shows that the number of schizophrene in China has exceeded 10 million by the end of 2013, and it is still rising year after year.”
schizo
  1. (slang) Schizophrenic.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Both bands offered enigmatic singles and an epochal debut followed by an almost trad sophomore classic and a schizo follow-up.”
      “His most famous role, of course, is that of the schizo narrator in David Fincher's 1998 film Fight Club.”
schizophrenic
schizophreniacs
  1. plural of schizophreniac
schizophrenics
  1. plural of schizophrenic
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I assume your writer watched the film, yet somehow this didn't stop him from simply tagging all these individuals as schizophrenics.”
      “These parameters indicate that dosing this drug based on blood levels may optimize response in acute schizophrenics.”
      “In a practice common among schizophrenics, he keeps a notebook, writing in hieroglyphs that are only comprehensible to him.”
schizophrenias
schizophasics
  1. plural of schizophasic
schizophrenes
schizothymics
  1. plural of schizothymic
schizophasias
  1. plural of schizophasia
schizoids
schizos
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