SCHIZOPHRENIA

noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1912 a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (as delusions), perception (as hallucinations), and behavior, contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes , schizophrenic adjective or noun schizophrenically adverb