- paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, 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
--1 is a kind of schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox