schizophrenia
/ˌskɪtsə(ʊ)ˈfriːnɪə
/noun [mass noun]
1A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.The appellant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is a mental illness within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983....
- Shortly after he finished his first album, he was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
- Some of these studies have now shown that children who develop schizophrenia are developmentally different.
1.1(In general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements: Gibraltar’s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride...
- Abrupt changes in mood, the destruction of comfort, and schizophrenia are all elements at work here.
- Now that growth is faltering, the inconsistencies of our political schizophrenia are emerging.
Origin
Early 20th century: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein 'to split' + phrēn 'mind'.
Rhymes
- hearth bottom
- hearth-cake
- hearth cinder
- hearth cricket
- hearth-holder
- hearthless
- hearth money
- hearth-pace
- hearth-penny
- hearth plate
- hearthrug
- hearthside
- hearth-silver
- hearthstead
- hearthstone
- hearthstoning
- hearth tidy
- heart hunger
- heart hurry
- hearthward
- hearth-warming
- heartikins
- heartily
- heartiness
- heart-in-mouth