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Schizoid
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- 1 Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.
"Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities. By means of such symbolizations, object contact may be sought and obtained, while at the same time a psychological distance may be maintained between self and other; it is virtually impossible to have a personal relationship and at the same time to maintain such distance."
- 2 Schizophrenic. archaic
- 3 Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable or unpredictable. figuratively, offensive, sometimes
"Babits himself never fully lived up to this program; indeed, the declaration itself shows his schizoid attitude toward poetry: he wants to say out loud that he does not want to be heard."
- 1 marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships wordnet
- 2 of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia wordnet
- 1 Someone with schizoid personality disorder.
- 2 characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia wordnet
- 3 Someone with schizophrenia. archaic
Etymology
From schiz(ophrenia)- + -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
From schiz(ophrenia)- + -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
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