Phrase guide

personality disorder

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie

Narrower terms: maladjustment, antisocial personality disorder, sociopathic personality, psychopathic personality, schizotypal personality, schizoid

History

Etymology

From personality + disorder.

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: persoonlikheidsteuring — class of mental disorders
  • Armenian: անձնային խանգարում (anjnayin xangarum) — class of mental disorders
  • Catalan: trastorn de la personalitat — class of mental disorders
  • Chinese Mandarin: 人格障礙 /人格障碍 (réngé zhàng'ài) — class of mental disorders
  • Czech: porucha osobnosti — class of mental disorders
  • Danish: personlighedsforstyrrelse — class of mental disorders
  • Danish: personlighedsstruktur — class of mental disorders
  • Dutch: persoonlijkheidsstoornis — class of mental disorders
  • Finnish: persoonallisuushäiriö — class of mental disorders
  • French: trouble de la personnalité — class of mental disorders
  • Galician: trastorno da personalidade — class of mental disorders
  • Georgian: პიროვნების აშლილობა (ṗirovnebis ašliloba) — class of mental disorders
  • German: Persönlichkeitsstörung — class of mental disorders
  • Greek: διαταραχή προσωπικότητας (diatarachí prosopikótitas) — class of mental disorders
  • Hebrew: הפרעת אישיות — class of mental disorders
  • Hindi: व्यक्तित्व विकार (vyaktitva vikār) — class of mental disorders
  • Hungarian: személyiségzavar — class of mental disorders
  • Icelandic: persónuleikaröskun — class of mental disorders
  • Indonesian: gangguan kepribadian — class of mental disorders
  • Italian: disturbo di personalità — class of mental disorders
  • Japanese: パーソナリティ障害 (pāsonariti shōgai) — class of mental disorders
  • Japanese: 人格障害 (jinkaku shōgai) — class of mental disorders
  • Japanese: 性格障害 (seikaku shōgai) — class of mental disorders
  • Khmer: វិបល្លាសបុគ្គលិកលក្ខណៈ (vi’pallaah bokkea’lɨk leakkha’na’) — class of mental disorders
  • Korean: 인격장애 (in'gyeokjang'ae) — class of mental disorders
  • Latvian: personības traucējumi — class of mental disorders
  • Lithuanian: asmenybės sutrikimas — class of mental disorders
  • Māori: mate haukiri — class of mental disorders
  • Norwegian: personlighetsforstyrrelse — class of mental disorders
  • Persian: اختلال شخصیت — class of mental disorders
  • Polish: zaburzenie osobowości — class of mental disorders
  • Portuguese: transtorno de personalidade — class of mental disorders
  • Romanian: tulburare de personalitate — class of mental disorders
  • Russian: расстро́йство ли́чности (rasstrójstvo líčnosti) — class of mental disorders
  • Russian: ли́чностное расстро́йство (líčnostnoje rasstrójstvo) — class of mental disorders
  • Spanish: trastorno de la personalidad — class of mental disorders
  • Swedish: personlighetsstörning — class of mental disorders
  • Turkish: kişilik bozukluğu — class of mental disorders
  • Turkish: şahsiyet bozukluğu — class of mental disorders
  • Ukrainian: ро́злад особи́стості (rózlad osobýstosti) — class of mental disorders
  • Vietnamese: rối loạn nhân cách — class of mental disorders