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Schizophrenic vs Schizzy - What's the difference?

schizophrenic | schizzy |

As adjectives the difference between schizophrenic and schizzy

is that schizophrenic is of or pertaining to schizophrenia while schizzy is (slang|derogatory) schizophrenic; crazy.

As a noun schizophrenic

is a person suffering from schizophrenia.

schizophrenic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to schizophrenia.
  • (of a person) Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception of reality.
  • (slang, deprecated) Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable.

    • Related terms

    * schizo * nonschizophrenic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person suffering from schizophrenia.

    • schizzy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, derogatory) schizophrenic; crazy
  • * 1983 , ?duard Limonov, It's me, Eddie: a fictional memoir
    • But a Russian, in my observation, can go schizzy from just about anything, except from losing his job. She went schizzy. She was depressed for almost two years and still has her ups and downs.
  • * 2003 , Rex Miller, Iceman (page 77)
    • Typically he's schizzy or immature or homosexual, or in the exceptional cases such as you have to deal with, a total psychotic personality.
  • * 2003 , Charles Goodwin, Conversation and brain damage (page 45)
    • But, to cite an older example, not everything that schizophrenics say or think is "schizzy," and some of the things that are are not schizzy in principle, only in mode or degree of realization.