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

1 sense of schizophrenia

Sense 1
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)
       => psychosis -- (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)