HEBEPHRENIA

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Meaning:

A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions

Synonyms:

disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hebephrenia" is a kind of...):

dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

Derivation:

hebephrenic (suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior)

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