Schizophrenia
WordNet

noun


(1)   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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Etymology


First attested 1910, from germanized Greek Schizophrenie "split mind", coined by Eugen Bleuler, from schizo-, from + .

Noun



  1. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion
  2. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist
 
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