schizophrenia

Noun

Meaning

any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dementia praecox schizophrenic disorder schizophrenic psychosis derangement mania neurosis dementia madness insanity psychosis paranoia lunacy psychopathy craziness phobia

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Antonyms

reason sense enlightenment balance rationality sanity

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Hypernyms

disease psychosis

Hyponyms

paranoid schizophrenia paraphrenia catatonia disorganized schizophrenia hebephrenia catatonic schizophrenia

Related terms

schism frenzy frantic frenzied phrenology schist

Phrases with the word

histrionic schizophrenia object schizophrenia schizophrenia spectrum

Examples

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Marshall McLuhan

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E. L. Doctorow

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic. Thomas Szasz

Schizophrenia beats dining alone. Oscar Levant

Close letter words and terms

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