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LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does latent schizophrenia mean?
• LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)
The noun LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA has 1 sense:
1. schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
Familiarity information: LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
borderline schizophrenia; latent schizophrenia
Hypernyms ("latent schizophrenia" 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)
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