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SCHIZOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia
Synonyms:
schizoid; schizotypal personality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("schizoid" is a kind of...):
personality disorder (inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships
Classified under:
Similar:
neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia
Synonyms:
schizoid; schizophrenic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
