Dementia Praecox (Noun)

Meaning

Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Synonyms

• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychosis
• Schizophrenic Disorder

Hypernyms

• Psychosis

Hyponyms

• Catatonic Type Schizophrenia
• Catatonia
• Disorganized Schizophrenia
• Catatonic Schizophrenia
• Acute Schizophrenic Episode
• Borderline Schizophrenia
• Paranoid Schizophrenia
• Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
• Paraphrenic Schizophrenia
• Latent Schizophrenia
• Paranoic Type Schizophrenia
• Reactive Schizophrenia
• Hebephrenia