HEBEPHRENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hebephrenia mean? 

• HEBEPHRENIA (noun)
  The noun HEBEPHRENIA has 1 sense:

1. a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions

  Familiarity information: HEBEPHRENIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEBEPHRENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia

Hypernyms ("hebephrenia" is a kind of...):

dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

Derivation:

hebephrenic (suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior)