Usually means: Chronic mental disorder, distorted thinking.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word schizophrenia:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. schizophrenia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. schizophrenia: Merriam-Webster
  3. schizophrenia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. schizophrenia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. schizophrenia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. schizophrenia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Schizophrenia, schizophrenia: Wordnik
  8. schizophrenia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. schizophrenia: Wiktionary
  10. schizophrenia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. schizophrenia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. schizophrenia: Dictionary.com
  13. schizophrenia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. schizophrenia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Schizophrenia (Sepultura album), Schizophrenia (Wayne Shorter album), Schizophrenia (disambiguation), Schizophrenia (film), Schizophrenia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. schizophrenia: Rhymezone
  17. schizophrenia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. schizophrenia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. schizophrenia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. schizophrenia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. schizophrenia: Infoplease Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schizophrenia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. schizophrenia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Schizophrenia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. schizophrenia: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Glossary
  6. Schizophrenia: Merck Manuals
  7. schizophrenia: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  10. Schizophrenia: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  11. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  12. schizophrenia: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. schizophrenia: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  14. schizophrenia: Medical dictionary
  15. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  17. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  18. Schizophrenia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  19. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schizophrenia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See schizophrenias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
noun:  (informal, figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

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