schizoid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈskɪtsɔɪd/, /ˈskɪdzɔɪd/
schizoid
- characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity
- 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.
- (archaic) schizophrenic
- (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.
- 1972, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad (volume 46, page 32)
schizoid (plural schizoids)
- (psychiatry) someone with schizoid personality disorder
- (archaic) someone with schizophrenia
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