Schizophrenia

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  schizophrenia
       n : any of several psychotic disorders characterized by
           distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and
           language and withdrawal from social contact [syn: {schizophrenic
           disorder}, {schizophrenic psychosis}, {dementia praecox}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "schizophrenia":
     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