Catatonia vs Semicatatonic - What's the difference?
catatonia | semicatatonic |
A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation
In a state partially resembling catatonia.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 24, author=Ben Brantley, title=Swimming Across the Rough Sea of History, work=New York Times
, passage=When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams. }}
As a noun catatonia
is a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.As an adjective semicatatonic is
in a state partially resembling catatonia.catatonia
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