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PARAPHRENIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A 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
Synonyms:
paranoic type schizophrenia; paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paraphrenic schizophrenia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("paraphrenia" is a kind of...):
dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
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