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schizophrenia

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of schizophrenia

technical a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of schizophrenia

hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia

aberration, dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]

neurosis, psychosis

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

senile dementia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of schizophrenia

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness

mind, saneness, sanity

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