Meanings
nounhebephrene (plural hebephrenes)
plural hebephrenes
- 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 - alternativeAlternative form of hebephrenia.
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