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noun
Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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noun
The state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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noun
a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox
History
From para- + -phrenia.
Across languages
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