different between schizophrenia vs schizoid

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

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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.

English

Etymology

schizo(phrenia)- +? -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhíz?, “to split”) and ????? (eîdos, “form, likeness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?ts??d/, /?sk?dz??d/
• Hyphenation: schiz?oid

Adjective

schizoid (comparative more schizoid, superlative most schizoid)

1. Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.

   • Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities. By means of such symbolizations, object contact may be sought and obtained, while at the same time a psychological distance may be maintained between self and other; it is virtually impossible to have a personal relationship and at the same time to maintain such distance.

2. (archaic) schizophrenic
3. (figuratively) Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable.
   • 1972, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad (volume 46, page 32)

     Babits himself never fully lived up to this program; indeed, the declaration itself shows his schizoid attitude toward poetry: he wants to say out loud that he does not want to be heard.

Translations

Noun

schizoid (plural schizoids)

1. (psychiatry) someone with schizoid personality disorder
2. (archaic) someone with schizophrenia

Translations

References

• “schizoid” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Romanian

Etymology

From French schizoïde

Adjective

schizoid m or n (feminine singular schizoid?, masculine plural schizoizi, feminine and neuter plural schizoide)

1. schizoid

Declension