how to pronounce schizophrenia
/ˌskɪt.səˈfɹiː.ni.ə/
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schizophrenia is pronounced in five syllables
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An example use of schizophrenia in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… what we now know schizophrenia and it …”
meanings of schizophrenia
noun:
- Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.
- A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
schizophrenia frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR
the word schizophrenia occurs in english on average 3.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
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