| Definitions | | schizophrenia |
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noun
- (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion
- (informal) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist
Translations: - Dutch: schizofrenie
- German: Schizophrenie
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Etymology: First attested w:1910, 1910, from germanized Greek Schizophrenie "split mind", coined by w:Eugen Bleuler, Eugen Bleuler, from (schizofreneia), from prefix - schizo-, from Ancient Greek (schizo) "to tear, to split, to cut" + Ancient Greek (fren) "mind, brain, diaphragm".
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