Schizoid

Quick meaning: Schizoid is an adjective meaning Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.

Meaning

Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, sometimes offensive) Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable or unpredictable.
2. (psychiatry) Someone with schizoid personality disorder.
3. (archaic) Schizophrenic.
4. (archaic) Someone with schizophrenia.

Example Sentences

Babits himself never fully lived up to this program; indeed, the declaration itself shows his schizoid attitude toward poetry: he wants to say out loud that he does not want to be heard.

I continued to live a schizoid existence—working as a schoolteacher, molding myself into what I imagined was a traditional male image […] — but I couldn't fool myself. I was a queer in lumberjack drag.

Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities. By means of such symbolizations, object contact may be sought and obtained, while at the same time a psychological distance may be maintained between self and other; it is virtually impossible to have a personal relationship and at the same time to maintain such distance.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for schizoid

Depending on context, synonyms include neurotic, schizophrenic, psychoneurotic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include schizophrenic, neurotic, psychoneurotic, asperger, underemotional, distant.

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