SCHIZOPHRENIA
- a mental disorder with 'splitting' of personality and separation from environment [n -S]
- A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation
- (in general use) A mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements