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katatonia

katatonia is the alternative form of catatonia.

Meaning of catatonia

Noun

catatonia (usually uncountable, plural catatonias)

  1. (usually) A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
  2. (informal, usually) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
    • “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.1998, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, Crisis of Empire Book I: An Honorable Defense

Forms of katatonia

pluralkatatonias

Questions about katatonia

What is katatonia the alternative form of?
Katatonia is the alternative form of catatonia.

Words near katatonia in the dictionary

  1. katastatic
  2. katastematic
  3. katasukashi
  4. katathermometer
  5. katathermometers
  6. katatonia
  7. katatonias
  8. katatonic
  9. katatonics
  10. katatype
  11. katatypes

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