paraschizophrenic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "he did consider that, at the time of the killing, Mrs. Kovert suffered from a paraschizophrenic condition, and was a totally irresponsible psychotic whom neither policemen, nor the entire United States Army, would have deterred from the homicide. He termed "ridiculous" the findings of a sanity board consisting of"
- "The paraschizophrenic borderline, or "borderline schizophrenic," is somewhat, or almost but not quite, schizophrenic. Unlike disorganizing schizophrenics, who are confused .. Some paraschizophrenic borderlines are in fact physically different. They may be tall, angular, bony. They may have, like the schizophrenic, a mirror sign - but the implication is not quite the same."
Etymology
From para- + schizophrenic.