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schizoid vs. schizophrenia

adjective

  1. Psychology.,  of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.

  2. Informal.,  of or relating to schizophrenia or to multiple personality.

noun

  1. a schizoid person.

noun

  1. Formerly dementia praecoxPsychiatry.,  a spectrum of mental disorders characterized by emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, hallucinations, or a combination of any of these symptoms.

  2. Sometimes Offensive.,  a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.