schizophrenia

Noun

1.

schizophrenia - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact Synonyms: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis

acute schizophrenic episode, borderline schizophrenia, catatonia, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, dementia praecox, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, psychosis, reactive schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis