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Paranoid vs Schizophrenia - What's the difference?

paranoid | schizophrenia |

As nouns the difference between paranoid and schizophrenia

is that paranoid is someone suffering from paranoia while schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As an adjective paranoid

is of, related to, or suffering from paranoia.

paranoid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or suffering from paranoia
  • Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others
    • Maybe I'm paranoid , but that doesn't mean that they are not out to get me.

    Related terms

    * paranoidly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone suffering from paranoia

    • schizophrenia

    English

    (wikipedia schizophrenia)

    Noun

  • (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
  • (informal) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

    • Derived terms

    * borderline schizophrenia * catatonic schizophrenia (catatonia) * disorganized schizophrenia * hebephrenic schizophrenia (hebephrenia) * latent schizophrenia * paranoid schizophrenia * paraphrenic schizophrenia * reactive schizophrenia * schizophrenic

    Synonyms

    * dementia praecox * schizophrenic disorder * schizophrenic psychosis