BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does borderline schizophrenia mean? 

• BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)
  The noun BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA has 1 sense:

1. schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia

  Familiarity information: BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)

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 ("borderline 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)