English > schizophrenia: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact. |
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| Synonyms | schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox |
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| Narrower | acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia | schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months) |
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| borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia | schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia |
| catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods |
| hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior |
| paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy) |
| Broader | psychosis | Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted |
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| Spanish | esquizofrenia |
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| Catalan | esquizofrènia |
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| Adjectives | schizoid, schizophrenic | of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia |
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| schizophrenic | suffering from some form of schizophrenia |
