Schizophrenia vs Pastiche - What's the difference?
schizophrenia | pastiche |
(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.
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.
To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
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As nouns the difference between schizophrenia and pastiche
is that schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion while pastiche is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.As a verb pastiche is
to create or compose in a mixture of styles.schizophrenia
English
(wikipedia schizophrenia)Noun
Derived terms
* borderline schizophrenia * catatonic schizophrenia (catatonia) * disorganized schizophrenia * hebephrenic schizophrenia (hebephrenia) * latent schizophrenia * paranoid schizophrenia * paraphrenic schizophrenia * reactive schizophrenia * schizophrenicSynonyms
* dementia praecox * schizophrenic disorder * schizophrenic psychosispastiche
English
(wikipedia pastiche)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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