schizophrenia

As nouns the difference between paranoid and schizophrenia

is that paranoid is someone suffering from paranoia while schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As an adjective paranoid

is of, related to, or suffering from paranoia.

As nouns the difference between paranoia and schizophrenia

is that paranoia is a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution while schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As a noun schizophrenia is

(pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As nouns the difference between hallucination and schizophrenia

is that hallucination is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion while schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and schizophrenia

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

As nouns the difference between schizophrenia and delirium

is that schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion while delirium is a temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.