reactive schizophrenia

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   schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)

   Synonymsacute schizophrenic episode

   Broaderschizophrenia

Questions about reactive schizophrenia

What does reactive schizophrenia mean?

reactive schizophrenia means "schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)".

What is another word for reactive schizophrenia?

Close synonyms include acute schizophrenic episode. 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 reactive schizophrenia a common word?

reactive 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.