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Definition of Schizoid

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia.

2. Noun. Characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia.

3. Adjective. Marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships.

Definition of Schizoid

1. Adjective. characterized by social withdrawal and flat affect ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) schizophrenic ¹

3. Noun. someone with Schizoid Personality Disorder ¹

4. Noun. (archaic) someone with schizophrenia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schizoid

1. a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder [n -S]

Medical Definition of Schizoid

1. Socially isolated, withdrawn, having few (if any) friends or social relationships; resembling the personality features characteristic of schizophrenia, but in a milder form. See: schizoid personality. Origin: schizo(phrenia), + G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizoid

schizocytosis schizodactyly schizogenesis schizogenic schizogenous schizogeny schizognath schizognathae schizognathism schizognathous

schizogonic schizogonies schizogonous schizogyria schizoid (current term) schizoid personality schizoid personality disorder schizoidism schizoids schizomid

schizomids schizomycete schizomycetes schizomycetic schizomycosis schizonemertea schizonticide schizonts

Literary usage of Schizoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making Economic Sense by Murray Newton Rothbard (2006)
"Why schizoid? Consider: Much propaganda is made about the horrors of the ... The proposal is schizoid because it implicitly assumes that the economy, ..."

2. Reflective Practice: Psychodynamic Ideas in the Community by Leslie Swartz, Kerry Gibson, Tamara Gelman (2002)
"Bion (1963) formulates the idea that there can be movement between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. The group moved back to paranoid feelings ..."

3. The Legacy of Vietnam Veterans and Their Families: Survivors of War edited by Dennis K. Rhoades, Michael R. Leaveck, James C. Hudson (1996)
"In general, parents saw their children as depressed, anxious, somatizing, schizoid, uncommunicative, hyperactive, aggressive, and delinquent, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1908)
"... Pine Barren species, so far as southern New Jersey is concerned, not occurring in West Jersey or the coast strip. schizoid pusilla* Sporobolus ..."

5. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"And every botanist will wish to collect schizoid pusilla, rarest, most local, and among the smallest of Ferns. If only the season would allow it, ..."

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