Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun paraphrenic_schizophrenia

1 sense of paraphrenic schizophrenia

Sense 1
paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia -- (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)
       => schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox -- (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)