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schizophrenia (n.)

1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split") + phrēn (genitive phrenos) "heart, mind" (hence phrenes "wits, sanity"); see phreno-.

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Definitions of schizophrenia from WordNet

schizophrenia (n.)
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact;
Synonyms: schizophrenic disorder / schizophrenic psychosis / dementia praecox
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