Definition of paraphrenia Paraphrenia
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What does paraphrenia mean?
WordNet
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| paraphrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner | ||
| paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia | ||
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Wiktionary 
- paraphrenia (Noun)
Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
Part of speech
🔤- paraphrenia, noun, singular of paraphrenias / paraphreniae.
