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