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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affected with schizophrenia.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
- noun One who is affected with schizophrenia.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
schizophrenia . - adjective of a person
Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception ofreality . - adjective slang, deprecated Behaving as if one has more than one
personality ; wildlychangeable . - noun A person suffering from schizophrenia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering from some form of schizophrenia
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia
- noun someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia
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Examples
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A so-called split personality is not part of the syndrome, and the word schizophrenic is better avoided in that context.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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A so-called split personality is not part of the syndrome, and the word schizophrenic is better avoided in that context.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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For Deleuze and Guattari, the schizophrenic is a challenge to the political and linguistic systems simultaneously since he utilizes language in unsocial and antisocial ways.
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Because the schizophrenic is not "properly" hooked up to the Oedipal machine of Imaginary desires and
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This leads to a certain schizophrenic quality to the writing.
Boing Boing 2007
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Certainly a schizophrenic is perfectly capable of acting on an intention.
Is That Legal?: In Defense of Worrying About The Word "Terrorist" 2006
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To call republicans schizophrenic is an obvious and redundant statement.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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She told police her husband, who she described as schizophrenic and suicidal, had become angry because he believed she had "sexual intercourse with more than 60 people, that he had one too many intestines, and that he had a chip installed in his head," court documents allege.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A patient that have social anxiety and social phobia are ofttimes misdiagnosed and are often identified as schizophrenic and manic-depressive, out of other bad misdiagnoses.
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Cummings called the Interior Department "schizophrenic" - on the one hand declaring its intent to protect polar bear habitat in the Arctic, yet at the same time "sacrificing that habitat to feed our unsustainable addiction to oil."
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