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 (countable and uncountable; plural schizophrenias)

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, sgiotsoifrinia (gd) f
• 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), usyarılım (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