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Word: Schizophrenia
Speech Type: Noun
early 20th century: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind’
skɪtsə(ʊ)ˈfriːnɪə
a serious mental condition of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Short Definition:serious mental condition
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