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Definition of Personality disorder
1. Noun. Inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior.
Generic synonyms: Disturbance, Folie, Mental Disorder, Mental Disturbance, Psychological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Maladjustment, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathic Personality, Sociopathic Personality, Schizoid, Schizotypal Personality
Specialized synonyms: Maladjustment, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathic Personality, Sociopathic Personality, Schizoid, Schizotypal Personality
Definition of Personality disorder
1. Noun. (psychology) A class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Personality disorder
1. General term for a group of behavioural disorder's characterised by usually lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle, and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms; former designations for individuals with these personality disorder's were psychopath and sociopath. See: antisocial personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personality Disorder
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