heboid

English

Etymology

From hebe- +‎ -oid, from Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youthful beauty”) (also Ἥβη (Hḗbē, “the goddess Hebe”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiːˌbɔɪd/

Adjective

heboid (not comparable)

1. (clinical psychology) Of or relating to hebephrenia.
   • 1965, Leona E. Tyler, The Psychology of Human Differences, 3rd edition, New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, page 441:

     Wittman rated the case histories of 167 male patients on three main types of abnormal reaction which it was thought would correspond to the three "-penias" described above-affective (manic-depressive), paranoid, and heboid (hebephrenic) reactions.

   • 1985, Calvin S. Hall, Gardner Lindzey, Introduction to Theories of Personality, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 400-401:

     The third, or heboid, component represents the hebephrenic form of schizophrenia. […] Sheldon's finding that delinquents tended to exhibit more affective than paranoid or heboid characteristics.

2. (clinical psychology) Of or relating to heboidophrenia.

Noun

heboid

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (clinical psychology) A behavioral disorder in adolescents, marked by severe impairment of social behavior, loss of higher emotions, and a prevalence of antisocial impulses. It is characterized by callousness, lack of empathy, a tendency to commit petty crimes, and a disregard for social norms, often emerging during puberty.

   Synonym: heboidophrenia

Translations

form of hebephrenia

• Catalan: heboide f
• Finnish: heboidi
• French: héboïde (fr)
• Greek: εβοειδές f (evoeidés)
• Russian: гебоид (ru) f (geboid)
• Romanian: heboid (ro) f
• Ukrainian: гебоїд f (hebojid)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French héboïde.

Noun

heboid m (plural heboizi)

1. heboid

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	heboid	heboidul	heboizi	heboizii
genitive-dative	heboid	heboidului	heboizi	heboizilor
vocative	heboidule		heboizilor