schizophrenia

Other forms of schizophrenia

plural

schizophrenias·

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 schizophrenia

What does schizophrenia mean?

schizophrenia means "any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact".

How many syllables are in schizophrenia?

schizophrenia has 5 syllables: schiz-oph-re-ni-a. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹiniə/.

What is another word for schizophrenia?

Close synonyms include schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox. 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 schizophrenia a common word?

schizophrenia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.