schizophrenia

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Etymology

First attested 1910, from New Latin, from German Schizophrenie, coined by Eugen Bleuler, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhizō, “I tear, split, cut”) + φρήν (phrēn, “mind, brain, diaphragm”).

Pronunciation

• AHD: [skĭt′səfrēnēə], [skĭt′səfrĕnēə] or [skĭzəfrēnēə]

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Noun

schizophrenia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
2. (informal) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

Derived terms

• borderline schizophrenia
• catatonic schizophrenia (catatonia)
• disorganized schizophrenia
• hebephrenic schizophrenia (hebephrenia)
• latent schizophrenia
• paranoid schizophrenia
• paraphrenic schizophrenia
• reactive schizophrenia
• schizophrenic

Synonyms

• dementia praecox
• schizophrenic disorder
• schizophrenic psychosis

Translations

illness

Arabic: فُصَام (ar) (fuSaam), الفصام الذهاني (ar), اِنْفِصَامُ الشَّخْصِيَّة (ar) Aragonese: esquizofrenia (an) f. Armenian: շիզոֆրենիա (hy) (šizofrenia) Azeri: şizofreniya (az) Basque: eskizofrenia (eu) Bulgarian: шизофрения (bg) (šizofrenija) f. Catalan: esquizofrènia (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: trad. and simpl. 精神分裂症 (jyutping: zing1 san4 fan6 lit6 zing3) Mandarin: trad. and simpl. 精神分裂症 (pinyin: jīngshénfēnlièzhèng) Czech: schizofrenie (cs) f. Danish: skizofreni (da) Dutch: schizofrenie (nl) Esperanto: skizofrenio (eo) Estonian: skisofreenia (et) Finnish: skitsofrenia (fi) French: schizophrénie (fr) f. Galician: esquizofrenia (gl) f. Georgian: შიზოფრენია (ka) (šizop’renia) German: Schizophrenie (de) f. Greek: σχιζοφρένεια (el) (schizofrenia) f. Hebrew: סְכִיזוֹפְרֶנְיָה (he) (skizofrenya) f. Hindi: मनोविदालिता (hi) f. Hungarian: skizofrénia (hu) Icelandic: geðklofi (is) m.

Irish: scitsifréine (ga) Italian: schizofrenia (it) f. Japanese: 統合失調症 (ja) (tōgōshitchōshō) Kannada: ಸ್ಕಿಝೋಫ್ರೇನಿಯ (kn) Korean: 정신분열증 (ko) Latin: morbus dissidentiae phreneticae (la) Latvian: šizofrēnija (lv) f. Lithuanian: šizofrènija (lt) f. Norwegian: schizofreni (no) Persian: روان‌گسیختگی (fa), اسکیزوفرنی (fa), شیزوفرنی (fa) Polish: schizofrenia (pl) f. Portuguese: esquizofrenia (pt) f. Romanian: schizofrenie (ro) f. Russian: шизофрения (ru) (šizofreníja) f. Scottish Gaelic: sgoltadh-inntinn m., dà-urrachas (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: схизофрѐнија (sh) f. Roman: shizofrènija (sh) f. Sicilian: schizzufrinìa (scn) f. Slovak: schizofrénia (sk) Slovene: shizofreníja (sl) f. Spanish: esquizofrenia (es) f. Swedish: schizofreni (sv) Turkish: şizofreni (tr) Ukrainian: шизофренія (uk) (šizofrenija) f. Urdu: انفصام (ur)

informal: condition in which disparate activities coexist

German: Schizophrenie (de) f.

Greek: σχιζοφρένεια (el) (schizofrenia) f.