schizophrenic
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˌskɪtsəˈfrɛnɪk/
- Specialized
:
esquizofrénico
- Many people who are schizophrenic experience hallucinations and delusions, making it difficult for them to distinguish reality.
- schizophrenic patients
- diagnosed as schizophrenic
- schizophrenic people live
that means you're either schizophrenic or you're possessed.
- that means you're either schizophrenic or you're possessed.
- The DMT trip is not a is not the same as the schizophrenic experience.
- But she's she's been struggling with, with her mental health, like she's schizophrenic, like she's probably tried to commit suicide a few times.
- So if, if, if, if I were schizophrenic and I was getting auditory hallucinations, etcetera, and I took clozapine, what could I expect to feel?
Examples
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Recent studies demonstrate that schizophrenic patients exhibit a bias toward misattributing internal events to an external source.
Academic text (1999) -
Reports of increased vividness of ordinary stimuli have some frequency in schizophrenic experience.
Academic text (1999) -
On the TV, he heard a mother talking about her schizophrenic son.
Fiction book (1990) -
So Fred, tell me, how long have you been schizophrenic?
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My mother was very loving, in spite of the fact that she was schizophrenic and paranoid.
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Previous to her suicide, Katherine Grant was diagnosed as schizophrenic... but was not receiving treatment at the time of her death.
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The psychiatrist suggested that the paranoid ideation was likely a function of the schizophrenic disease process.
Academic text (2005) -
He was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic.
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The patient was a 45-year-old single paranoid schizophrenic woman who lived with her mildly retarded brother in a small apartment.
Academic text (1994) -
Finally, there is the onset of full schizophrenic delusions: auditory hallucinations, voices in the head, thought insertion, and so on.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
167
8.4
Not in touch with reality and may see or hear things that are not there
77
3.4
Having a serious problem with thinking, feeling, or behaving because of a brain condition
Having a mental illness that causes confused behavior, odd feelings, and laughing at the wrong times
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.1
A serious mental illness that makes people lose contact with reality and withdraw from others
- Specialized
1
9.9
A serious mental illness where a person loses touch with reality and talks or thinks in a confused way
- Specialized
A short time when someone suddenly has severe symptoms of schizophrenia
Surface Forms
Morphology
schizophrenic = schizophrenia (transparent) = schizophrenia + ic
The adjective is a regular -ic formation from the disease name 'schizophrenia'; the relation is direct for learners who know the disease term.
Etymology
Schizophrenic comes from Greek parts schizo- meaning 'split' and -phren meaning 'mind', so the word literally points to a 'split mind'. That's why it names a serious mental disorder where a person's thinking and sense of reality can be deeply affected.