schizophrenia
Meaning of schizophrenia
noun
a 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.
early 20th century: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind’.
Information about schizophrenia
- It is a name.
- The plural form of schizophrenia is: schizophrenias.
- Languages in which schizophrenia is used:
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Hyphenation of schizophrenia
schizophre-nia
- It consists of 2 syllables and 13 chars.
- schizophrenia is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of schizophrenia
- Portuguese: esquizofrenia
- Italian: schizofrenia
- French: schizophrénie
- German: Schizophrenie
- Spanish: esquizofrenia
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