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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner wordnet
3. 3
   The state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

double personalitydual personalityparanoiaparanoic type schizophreniaparanoid schizophreniaparanoid schizophrenia

Etymology

From para- + -phrenia.

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