different between hebephrenia vs schizophrenia

English

Alternative forms

• hebephrene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (h?b?, “youthful beauty”) (also ??? (H?b?, “the goddess Hebe”)) + ???? (phr?n, “mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?b??f?i?n??/

Noun

hebephrenia (countable and uncountable, plural hebephrenias)

1. (obsolete) A type of mental disorder occurring during puberty characterized by silly behavior and inappropriate laughter.
2. (clinical psychology) A form of schizophrenia characterised by inappropriate behaviour and emotional responses.
   • 1937, Malcolm Lowry, "Prelude To Mammon"

     Sir: drinking is a problem without doubt: / Whether or not we like it, whether or not / The goddamn thing will put you on the spot / With heebiejeebies hebephrene or gout: / Or lumbago will set you tapping out / On brass ferrule to stool, to rest, to rot.

Translations

English

Etymology

First attested 1908, from New Latin schizophrenia, from German Schizophrenie, coined by Eugen Bleuler, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhíz?, “to split”) + ???? (phr?n, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?t.s??f?i?.ni.?/, /?sk?t.s??f??.ni.?/, /?sk?z.??f?i?.ni.?/

Noun

schizophrenia (countable and uncountable, plural schizophrenias)

1. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
2. (informal, figuratively) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.
   • 2006, Bertus Praeg, Ethiopia and Political Renaissance in Africa (page 213)

     […] one can understand how the cultural disorientation which beset the African Continent has confused Africa's political behaviour, creating a political schizophrenia that made nation-building impossible.

Usage notes

• In popular usage, the term is often confused with dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder).

Synonyms

• dementia praecox
• schizophrenic disorder
• schizophrenic psychosis

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• schizothymia
• schizoid personality disorder
• paranoid personality disorder
• schizotypal personality disorder
• autism

References

• schizophrenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “schizophrenia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary“schizophrenia” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.