As nouns the difference between schizophrenia and schizotypy
is that schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion while schizotypy is (psychology) a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences related to psychosis and specifically schizophrenia.
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
schizotypy
English
Noun
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(psychology) A continuum of personality characteristics and experiences related to psychosis and specifically schizophrenia.
Derived terms
* schizotypal 