hebephrene

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Noun[edit]

hebephrene (plural hebephrenes)

  1. One suffering from hebephrenia.
    • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, page 31:
      [He] rescues the other cameo-role mental patient, whom he believes to be Rhoda and who has been furious in his denials that he is female, much less fictional [...] from assault by a bit-part hebephrene.
  2. Alternative form of hebephrenia