different between paranoid vs schizophrenia

English

Etymology

From paranoia +? -oid.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??.?.?n??d/, /?pæ?.?.?n??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ?.?.?n??d/
• Hyphenation: para?noid

Adjective

paranoid (comparative more paranoid, superlative most paranoid)

1. Of, related to, or suffering from paranoia
2. Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others

   Maybe I'm paranoid, but that doesn't mean that they are not out to get me.

Related terms

• paranoidly

Translations

Noun

paranoid (plural paranoids)

1. Someone suffering from paranoia

Translations

Anagrams

• paraonid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa?ano??i?t]
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?no?id

Adjective

paranoid (comparative paranoider, superlative am paranoidesten)

1. paranoid

Declension

Further reading

• “paranoid” in Duden online

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.