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personality disorder

noun

Etymology

From personality + disorder.

  1. derived from ōrdō
  2. derived from desordre
  3. borrowed from desordre
  4. compounded as personality disorder — “personality + disorder”

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and…

    Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.

    • They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.

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