schizophrenia
noun /ˌskɪtsəˈfriːniə/
/ˌskɪtsəˈfriːniə/, /ˌskɪtsəˈfreniə/
[uncountable]- a mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link thought, emotion and behaviour, leading to withdrawal from reality and personal relationshipsWordfinderTopics Illnessc2
- anorexia
- autism
- bipolar disorder
- condition
- dementia
- depression
- paranoia
- psychosis
- schizophrenia
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chronic
- paranoid
- have
- suffer from
- develop
- …
- patients
Word Originearly 20th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind’.