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hebephrene

hebephrene noun: one suffering from hebephrenia. Also the alternative form of hebephrenia.

Noun

hebephrene (plural hebephrenes)

  1. One suffering from hebephrenia.
    • [He] rescues the other cameo-role mental patient, whom he believes to be Rhoda and who has been furious in his denials that he is female, much less fictional [...] from assault by a bit-part hebephrene.1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, page 31

Also used as

hebephrene is also the alternative form of hebephrenia.

Forms of hebephrene

pluralhebephrenes

Questions about hebephrene

What does hebephrene mean?
Hebephrene means one suffering from hebephrenia.
What part of speech is hebephrene?
Hebephrene is a noun.
What is the plural of hebephrene?
The plural of hebephrene is hebephrenes.

Words near hebephrene in the dictionary

  1. hebephiliac
  2. hebephiliacs
  3. hebephilic
  4. hebephilically
  5. hebephobia
  6. hebephrene
  7. hebephrenes
  8. hebephrenia
  9. hebephreniac
  10. hebephreniacs
  11. hebephrenias

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