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schizophrenia

3 definitions • 2 examples
1
a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary:

Examples:

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
2
the state of having qualities or attitudes that are different from each other and do not work well together:

Examples:

Lexington, as a prison and a hospital, was an expression of America's schizophrenia about how to treat addiction.
3
a mental illness in which a person’s thoughts and feelings are not related to reality

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