Schizophrenia

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * dementia praecox
 * schizophrenic disorder
 * schizophrenic psychosis

Thesaurus
alternating personality, brain disease, catatonia, catatonic schizophrenia, crack-up, dementia praecox, depersonalization, disconnection, dissociation, dissociation of personality, double personality, dual personality, emotional disorder, emotional dissociation, emotional instability, functional nervous disorder, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, insanity, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental dissociation, mental illness, multiple personality, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, paranoia, paranoid personality, paranoid psychosis, paraphrenia, personality disorder, personality disorganization, problems in living, psychosis, reaction, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizothymia, social maladjustment, split personality

Pronunciation

 * AHD: [skĭt′səfrēnēə], [skĭt′səfrĕnēə] or [skĭzəfrēnēə]