paraphrenia

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsparanoid schizophreniaparanoic type schizophreniaparaphrenic schizophrenia

   Broaderschizophrenia

Other forms of paraphrenia

plural

paraphrenias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paraphrenia

What does paraphrenia mean?

paraphrenia 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".

How many syllables are in paraphrenia?

paraphrenia has 5 syllables: pa-raph-re-ni-a. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for paraphrenia?

Close synonyms include paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia. 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 paraphrenia a common word?

paraphrenia 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.