paranoid schizophrenia

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   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

   Synonymsparanoic type schizophreniaparaphrenic schizophreniaparaphrenia

   Broaderschizophrenia

Questions about paranoid schizophrenia

What does paranoid schizophrenia mean?

paranoid schizophrenia means "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".

What is another word for paranoid schizophrenia?

Close synonyms include paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paranoid schizophrenia a common word?

paranoid schizophrenia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.