Meanings
- not comparableclinical psychologyOf or relating to hebephrenia.
The third, or heboid, component represents the hebephrenic form of schizophrenia. […] Sheldon's finding that delinquents tended to exhibit more affective than paranoid or heboid characteristics.
1985, Calvin S. Hall, Gardner Lindzey, Introduction to Theories of Personality, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 400-4011 more example
Wittman rated the case histories of 167 male patients on three main types of abnormal reaction which it was thought would correspond to the three "-penias" described above-affective (manic-depressive), paranoid, and heboid (hebephrenic) reactions.
1965, Leona E. Tyler, The Psychology of Human Differences, 3rd edition, New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, page 441 - not comparableclinical psychologyOf or relating to heboidophrenia.
- clinical psychologyA behavioral disorder in adolescents, marked by severe impairment of social behavior, loss of higher emotions, and a prevalence of antisocial impulses. It is characterized by callousness, lack of empathy, a tendency to commit petty crimes, and a disregard for social norms, often emerging during puberty.
Synonyms: heboidophrenia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA behavioral disorder in adolescents, marked by severe impairment of social behavior, loss of higher emotions, and a prevalence of antisocial impulses. It is characterized by callousness, lack of empathy, a tendency to commit petty crimes, and a disregard for social norms, often emerging during puberty.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἥβη“youthful beauty”
- Englishheboid
From hebe- + -oid, from Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youthful beauty”) (also Ἥβη (Hḗbē, “the goddess Hebe”)).
More words from Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan heboide
- heboideform of hebephrenia
Finnish heboidi
- heboidiform of hebephrenia
French héboïde
- héboïdeform of hebephrenia
Greek εβοειδές
- εβοειδές (evoeidés)form of hebephrenia
Romanian heboid
- heboidform of hebephrenia
Russian гебоид
- гебоид (geboid)form of hebephrenia
Ukrainian гебоїд
- гебоїд (hebojid)form of hebephrenia
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