schizoid

English

Etymology

schizo(phrenia)- +‎ -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈskɪtsɔɪd/, /ˈskɪdzɔɪd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: schiz‧oid

Adjective

schizoid (comparative more schizoid, superlative most schizoid)

  1. Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.
    • 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 135:
      Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities. By means of such symbolizations, object contact may be sought and obtained, while at the same time a psychological distance may be maintained between self and other; it is virtually impossible to have a personal relationship and at the same time to maintain such distance.
  2. (archaic) schizophrenic
  3. (figurative) Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable.
    • 1972, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad, volume 46, page 32:
      Babits himself never fully lived up to this program; indeed, the declaration itself shows his schizoid attitude toward poetry: he wants to say out loud that he does not want to be heard.

Translations

Noun

schizoid (plural schizoids)

  1. (psychiatry) someone with schizoid personality disorder
  2. (archaic) someone with schizophrenia

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French schizoïde.

Adjective

schizoid m or n (feminine singular schizoidă, masculine plural schizoizi, feminine and neuter plural schizoide)

  1. schizoid

Declension
Declension of schizoid
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite schizoid schizoidă schizoizi schizoide
definite schizoidul schizoida schizoizii schizoidele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite schizoid schizoide schizoizi schizoide
definite schizoidului schizoidei schizoizilor schizoidelor

Swedish

Adjective

schizoid (not comparable)

  1. schizoid

Declension
Inflection of schizoid
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular schizoid — —
Neuter singular schizoit — —
Plural schizoida — —
Masculine plural3 schizoide — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 schizoide — —
All schizoida — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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