Phrase guide
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noun
schizophrenia
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: psychosis
Narrower terms: borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia, acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia
History
A Latin phrase coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.
Across languages
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