'schizophrenia' definitions:
Definition of 'schizophrenia'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact [syn: schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox]
Synonyms of 'schizophrenia'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternating personality,
- brain disease,
- catatonia,
- catatonic schizophrenia,
- crack-up,
- dementia praecox,
- depersonalization,
- disconnection,
- dissociation,
- dissociation of personality,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional dissociation,
- emotional instability,
- functional nervous disorder,
- hebephrenia,
- hebephrenic schizophrenia,
- insanity,
- maladjustment,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia,
- mental disorder,
- mental dissociation,
- mental illness,
- multiple personality,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- neurosis,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- paranoid psychosis,
- paraphrenia,
- personality disorder,
- personality disorganization,
- problems in living,
- psychosis,
- reaction,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizothymia,
- social maladjustment,
- split personality