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paraschizophrenia

paraschizophrenia noun: borderline schizophrenia.

Noun

paraschizophrenia (uncountable)

  1. Borderline schizophrenia.
    • Relation of schizophrenia to constitutional mental weakness ; identity of mental debility from constitutional lack of sense and reality, and paraschizophrenia.1936, Research in Dementia Precox, page 72
    • This is a good layman's description of environment-motivated and finally consciously induced paraschizophrenia - 'madness as lubricant", in Karen Horney's famous phrase.1968, The Magus, page 432

Origin of paraschizophrenia

From para- + schizophrenia.

Questions about paraschizophrenia

What does paraschizophrenia mean?
Paraschizophrenia means borderline schizophrenia.
What part of speech is paraschizophrenia?
Paraschizophrenia is a noun.

Words near paraschizophrenia in the dictionary

  1. parascenium
  2. parasceve
  3. parasceves
  4. paraschachnerite
  5. paraschematic
  6. paraschizophrenia
  7. paraschizophrenic
  8. paraschoepite
  9. parascholarship
  10. parascholzite
  11. parascience

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