- Widening of the word’s original meaning of a mental disorder where the person experiences hallucinations, delusions, and emotional instability to the meaning of a different mental disorder
Schizophrenia
noun; other word formation type Widening
dissociative identity disorder where the person has more than one personality
Etymology : Schizophrenia - 1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (see schizo-) +phren (genitive phrenos) "diaphragm, heart, mind," of unknown origin (Online Etymology Dictionary)
Source : Heard in Rice student conversation, November, 2013 i. Girl: “One minute he was all over me and the next he wanted nothing to do with me; it was so weird. It’s like he has schizophrenia or something.”
Last modified: 25 November 2013