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paraphrenia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
para-phre-nia
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From para- + -phrenia.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

paraphrenias (plural)

Derived Forms

somatoparaphrenia

Frequently Paired Words

paraphrenic

Synonyms

paranoid schizophrenia paranoic type schizophrenia paraphrenic schizophrenia

Questions

What does paraphrenia mean?
Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
Where does paraphrenia come from?
From para- + -phrenia.

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