Schizophrenia vs Pastiche - What's the difference?
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As a noun schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion. As a verb pastiche is .
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
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pastiche Noun
( en noun)
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
(uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
Verb
(pastich)
To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 13, author=Natalie Angier, title=A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family, work=New York Times citation
, passage=That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature. }}
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