personality disorder

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   inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior

   Broadermental disorder

   Narrowermaladjustmentantisocial personality disorderschizotypal personality

Questions about personality disorder

What does personality disorder mean?

personality disorder means "inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior".

Is personality disorder a common word?

personality disorder 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.