Schizophrenia

Quick meaning: Schizophrenia is a noun meaning (now deprecated) A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.

Meaning

(now deprecated) A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.

More Meanings

1. (informal, figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.
2. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

Example Sentences

Increasing data suggests that regular marijuana use in adolescence may also be a risk factor for developing very serious psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia.

You have enough money to afford schizophrenia for a while. Especially if the personality B dreams up things that personality A makes practical, financially advantageous use of.

In 1995, 2% of schizophrenia diagnoses in the country were associated with cannabis use disorder. In 2000, it increased to around 4%. Since 2010, that figure increased to 8%, the study found.

[O]ne can understand how the cultural disorientation which beset the African Continent has confused Africa's political behaviour, creating a political schizophrenia that made nation-building impossible.

Word Forms

• schizophrenias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paranoid, disease, illness, dichotomy, inconsistency, hebephrenia.

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