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dementia praecox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.94 in modern English

Syllables
de-men-ti-a prae-cox
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

schizophrenia

Dated; Uncountable

Etymology

A Latin term coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

dementiae praecoces (plural) dementia præcox (alternative, obsolete) dementia precox (alternative)

Synonyms

schizophrenia schizophrenic disorder schizophrenic psychosis

Questions

What does dementia praecox mean?
schizophrenia
Where does dementia praecox come from?
It is traced to German.

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