Associations to the word «Schizophrenia»

Wiktionary

SCHIZOPHRENIA, noun. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
SCHIZOPHRENIA, noun. (informal) (figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

Dictionary definition

SCHIZOPHRENIA, noun. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats