schizophrenia
noun [U] /ˌskɪt.səˈfriː.ni.ə/Definition
› a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary: paranoid schizophreniaMental and psychiatric disorders › informal behaviour in which a person appears to have two different personalitiesMental and psychiatric disorders
(Definition of schizophrenia noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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