schizophrenia
/ˌskɪdzəʊˈfriːnɪə/noun
mass noun
1- a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation精神分裂症。
1.1
- (in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements人格分裂。
派生词
schizophrenic
/-ˈfrenɪk/ adjective & noun词源
early 20th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein 'to split' + phrēn 'mind'.