paraphrenia

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Etymology

From para- +‎ -phrenia.

Noun

paraphrenia (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrenias)

  1. (psychiatry) Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
  2. (psychiatry) The state of being paraphrenic, the most severe form of the mistrustful-paranoid-paraphrenic personality spectrum, related to paranoid personality disorder.

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