Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

borderline-personality disorder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English

Syllables: bor-der-line-per-son-al-i-ty dis-or-der
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

29

Letters

10

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of borderline personality disorder.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Psychiatrists and lawyers worked from a 500-page manual of mental disorders and bombarded the jury with its jargon. There were learned discourses of schizophrenia, schizoid-personality disorder, borderline-personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, magical thinking, ideas of reference, social isolation, affect that was blunted or inappopriate, narcissistic personality disorder including a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies and exhibitionism."
"He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder."
"In “Welcome to Me,” Wiig is Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline-personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery and decides to use her windfall to bankroll a TV talk show—with herself as the star."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

borderline-personality disorders (plural)

Questions

What does borderline-personality disorder mean?: Alternative form of borderline personality disorder.

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