schizophrenia
- 1A long-lasting mental illness that changes how a person experiences the world, thinks, feels, and acts, often with false beliefs.
Her uncle has schizophrenia and takes medicine for it every day.
With treatment and support, many people with schizophrenia hold jobs and live on their own.
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- 2A wrong use of the word for a condition where one person seems to have several separate personalities.
In the old horror film, the doctor's schizophrenia turns him into two different men.
"It's like he has schizophrenia: kind one minute, a total stranger the next," my cousin said.
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- 3A situation where opposite things go on at the same time, or where someone cannot choose.
There's a kind of schizophrenia in our town about the new mall: we all complain about it, and we all shop there.
The team's schizophrenia shows every week, playing brilliantly one half and terribly the next.
Similarinconsistency, incoherence, contradiction
Oppositeconsistency, coherence
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Origin
From German Schizophrenie, a word made by Eugen Bleuler from Greek words meaning “to split” and “mind”.