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schizophrenia

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹiniə/
  • US: /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹɛniə/
  • UK: /skɪtsə(ʊ)ˈfɹiːniə/
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  • CMU ARPABET: S K IH2 T S AH0 F R IY1 N IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, proscribed, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox

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

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.

Across languages

Translations

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: skisofrenie — mental disorder
  • Albanian: skizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Amharic: አኩሶዞረንያ (ʾäkusozoränya) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: فُصَام (fuṣām) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: الْفِصَام الذُّهَانِيّ (al-fiṣām aḏ-ḏuhāniyy) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: اِنْفِصَامُ الشَّخْصِيَّة (infiṣāmu š-šaḵṣiyya) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: شيزوفرينيا (šizufrenya) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: اِنْشِطَار الشَّخْصِيَّة (inšiṭār aš-šaḵṣiyya) — mental disorder
  • Arabic: شيزوفرينيا (šizufrenya) — mental disorder
  • Aragonese: esquizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Armenian: շիզոֆրենիա (šizofrenia) — mental disorder
  • Asturian: esquizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Azerbaijani: şizofreniya — mental disorder
  • Bashkir: шизофрения (şizofreniya) — mental disorder
  • Basque: eskizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Belarusian: шызафрэнія (šyzafrenija) — mental disorder
  • Belarusian: схізафрэнія (sxizafrenija) — mental disorder
  • Bengali: সিজোফ্রেনিয়া (śijōphreniẏa) — mental disorder
  • Bulgarian: шизофрени́я (šizofreníja) — mental disorder
  • Burmese: စိတ်ကစဉ့်ကလျားရောဂါ (citka.cany.ka.lya:rau:ga) — mental disorder
  • Catalan: esquizofrènia — mental disorder
  • Chichewa: misala — mental disorder
  • Chinese Cantonese: 精神分裂症 — mental disorder
  • Chinese Cantonese: 思覺失調症 /思觉失调症 (si1 gok3 sat1 tiu4 zing3) — mental disorder
  • Chinese: chêng-sîn-hun-lia̍t — mental disorder
  • Chinese Mandarin: 精神分裂症 (jīngshén fēnlièzhèng) — mental disorder
  • Chinese Mandarin: 思覺失調症 /思觉失调症 (sījuéshītiáozhèng) — mental disorder
  • Czech: schizofrenie — mental disorder
  • Danish: skizofreni — mental disorder
  • Danish: ungdomssløvsind — mental disorder
  • Dutch: schizofrenie — mental disorder
  • Esperanto: skizofrenio — mental disorder
  • Estonian: skisofreenia — mental disorder
  • Finnish: skitsofrenia — mental disorder
  • Finnish: jakomielisyys — mental disorder
  • Finnish: jakomielitauti — mental disorder
  • French: schizophrénie — mental disorder
  • Galician: esquizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Georgian: შიზოფრენია (šizoprenia) — mental disorder
  • German: Schizophrenie — mental disorder
  • Greek: σχιζοφρένεια (schizofréneia) — mental disorder
  • Greek: σχιζοφρενία (schizofrenía) — mental disorder
  • Greenlandic: skizofrenii — mental disorder
  • Gujarati: સ્કિઝોફ્રેનિઆ (skijhophreniā) — mental disorder
  • Haitian Creole: eskizofreni — mental disorder
  • Hebrew: סְכִיזוֹפְרֶנְיָה (skhizofrénya) — mental disorder
  • Hebrew: שַׁסַּעַת (shasá'at, šassáʿaṯ) — mental disorder
  • Hindi: मनोविदलता (manovidaltā) — mental disorder
  • Hungarian: szkizofrénia — mental disorder
  • Hungarian: skizofrénia — mental disorder
  • Icelandic: geðklofi — mental disorder
  • Ido: skizofrenio — mental disorder
  • Igbo: isi mgbaka — mental disorder
  • Indonesian: skizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Interlingua: schizophrenia — mental disorder
  • Irish: scitsifréine — mental disorder
  • Italian: schizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Japanese: 統合失調症 (tōgōshitchōshō) — mental disorder
  • Japanese: 精神分裂病 (seishinbunretsubyō) — mental disorder
  • Javanese: skizofrénia — mental disorder
  • Kannada: ಸ್ಕಿಝೋಫ್ರೇನಿಯ (skijhōphrēniya) — mental disorder
  • Kannada: ಇಚ್ಚಿತ್ತ ವಿಕಲತೆ (iccitta vikalate) — mental disorder
  • Kazakh: шизофрения (şizofreniä) — mental disorder
  • Korean: 조현병 (johyeonbyeong) — mental disorder
  • Korean: 정신분열증 (jeongsinbunyeoljeung) — mental disorder
  • Korean: 정신분열증의 (jeongsinbunyeoljeung'ui) — mental disorder
  • Central Kurdish: شیزۆفرێنیا (şîzofrênya) — mental disorder
  • Northern Kurdish: şîzofrenî — mental disorder
  • Kyrgyz: шизофрения (şizofreniya) — mental disorder
  • Latin: morbus dissidentiae phreneticae — mental disorder
  • Latin: dēmentia praecox — mental disorder
  • Latin: dēmentia præcox — mental disorder
  • Latin: schizophrenia — mental disorder
  • Latvian: šizofrēnija — mental disorder
  • Lithuanian: šizofrènija — mental disorder
  • Macedonian: шизофренија (šizofrenija) — mental disorder
  • Malagasy: aretin-tsaina — mental disorder
  • Malay: skizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Malayalam: സ്കിസോഫ്രീനിയ (skisōphrīniya) — mental disorder
  • Malayalam: ചിത്തഭ്രമം (cittabhramaṁ) — mental disorder
  • Maltese: skizofrenija — mental disorder
  • Maltese: iskiżofrenja — mental disorder
  • Māori: māuiui wairua tuakoi — mental disorder
  • Māori: tuakoi — mental disorder
  • Māori: pōauau — mental disorder
  • Marathi: छिन्नमनस्कता (chinnamnaskatā) — mental disorder
  • Mazanderani: اسکیزوفرنی (eskizoferni) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: шизофрени (šizofreni) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: хий солио (xii solio) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: оюун мэдрэл сарних хэм (ojuun medrel sarnix xem) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠽᠣᠹᠷᠧᠨᠢ (sizofrēni) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠢ ᠰᠣᠯᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (kei soliy-a) — mental disorder
  • Mongolian: ᠣᠶᠤᠨ ᠮᠡᠳᠡᠷᠡᠯ ᠰᠠᠷᠨᠢᠬᠤ ᠬᠡᠮ (oyun mederel sarniqu qem) — mental disorder
  • Navajo: bił áhátʼį́įgo tsʼindídááh — mental disorder
  • Norwegian Bokmål: schizofreni — mental disorder
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: schizofreni — mental disorder
  • Odia: ସିଜୋଫ୍ରେନିଆ (sijophreniā) — mental disorder
  • Pashto: سکیزفرینیا — mental disorder
  • Persian: روانگسیختگی (ravân-gosixtegi) — mental disorder
  • Persian: اسکیزوفرنی (eskizoferni) — mental disorder
  • Persian: شیزوفرنی (šizoferni) — mental disorder
  • Polish: schizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Portuguese: esquizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Punjabi: ਦੁਫਾੜ ਮਾਨਸਿਕਤਾ (duphāṛ mānsikatā) — mental disorder
  • Quechua: waq'akay — mental disorder
  • Romanian: schizofrenie — mental disorder
  • Russian: шизофрени́я (šizofreníja) — mental disorder
  • Russian: схизофрени́я (sxizofreníja) — mental disorder
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgoltadh-inntinn — mental disorder
  • Scottish Gaelic: dà-urrachas — mental disorder
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgiotsoifrinia — mental disorder
  • Serbo-Croatian: схизофрѐнија — mental disorder
  • Serbo-Croatian: шизофрѐнија — mental disorder
  • Serbo-Croatian: shizofrènija — mental disorder
  • Serbo-Croatian: šizofrènija — mental disorder
  • Sicilian: schizzufrinìa — mental disorder
  • Sindhi: اسڪيزوفرنيا (askezofrnyā) — mental disorder
  • Sindhi: شيزوروفيا (shezorofyā) — mental disorder
  • Sinhalese: හින්නෝන්මාදය (hinnōnmādaya) — mental disorder
  • Sinhalese: ශිශ්රෝපනය (śiśrōpanaya) — mental disorder
  • Slovak: schizofrénia — mental disorder
  • Slovene: shizofreníja — mental disorder
  • Somali: iskiitsofiriiniya — mental disorder
  • Spanish: esquizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Swahili: skizofrenia — mental disorder
  • Swedish: schizofreni — mental disorder
  • Tagalog: eskisoprenya — mental disorder
  • Tajik: маҷзубият (majzubiyat) — mental disorder
  • Tamil: பிளவுபட்ட மனநோய் (piḷavupaṭṭa maṉanōy) — mental disorder
  • Tamil: மனப்பித்து (maṉappittu) — mental disorder
  • Tamil: கிசோபிரோனியா (kicōpirōṉiyā) — mental disorder
  • Tamil: ஸ்கிசோஃப்ரினியா (skicōfriṉiyā) — mental disorder
  • Tatar: шизофрения (şizofreniyä) — mental disorder
  • Telugu: స్కిజోఫ్రీనియా (skijōphrīniyā) — mental disorder
  • Thai: โรคจิตเภท (rook-jit-dta-payt) — mental disorder
  • Turkish: şizofreni — mental disorder
  • Turkish: usyarılım — mental disorder
  • Ukrainian: шизофрені́я (šyzofreníja) — mental disorder
  • Urdu: انفصام (infiṣāmu) — mental disorder
  • Urdu: شیزوفرینیا (šizofrenyā) — mental disorder
  • Uzbek: shizofreniya — mental disorder
  • Veps: šizofrenii — mental disorder
  • Vietnamese: tâm thần phân liệt — mental disorder
  • Waray-Waray: eskisofrenya — mental disorder
  • Welsh: sgitsoffrenia — mental disorder
  • Yiddish: סכיזאָפֿרעניע (skhizofrenye) — mental disorder
  • Yoruba: rudurudu ti ọpọlọ — mental disorder
  • Zulu: bayasangana — mental disorder
  • Finnish: jakomielinen tilanne — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
  • German: Schizophrenie — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
  • Greek: σχιζοφρένεια (schizofréneia) — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
  • Polish: schizofrenia — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
  • Polish: schiza — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
  • Portuguese: esquizofrenia — informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist
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