schiz|oid

schiz|oid
schiz|oid «SKIHT soyd, SKIHZ oyd», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. having schizophrenia.
2. like or tending toward schizophrenia: »

A journalist writing of a visit to Revéron's thatched hut some time after his first schizoid crisis in 1945 describes the artist's bizarre method of painting (Newsweek).

–n.
a person who has, or tends toward, schizophrenia; schizophrenic.

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