paraphrenia

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noun

Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.

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paranoid schizophreniaparanoic type schizophreniaparaphrenic schizophrenia
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Meanings

nounparaphrenia (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrenias)

plural paraphrenias

  1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesAny of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
  2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner

Similar
paranoid schizophreniaparanoic type schizophreniaparaphrenic schizophrenia
Broader
schizophreniaschizophrenic disorderschizophrenic psychosis
Also see
paranoid schizophrenia

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From para- + -phrenia.

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Translations

French paraphrénie
  • paraphréniemental disorder
Greek παραφρενία
  • παραφρενία (parafrenía)mental disorder
Russian парафрени́я
  • парафрени́я (parafreníja)mental disorder
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Chicago

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