| gen. |
split personality (1. [singular] a tendency to have extreme and unexpected changes of emotion or behaviour 2. [uncountable] informal schizophrenia. MED. a condition in which a person behaves in two very different ways at different times – sometimes used figuratively a city with a split personality. MWALD. And he accused her of having a split personality. As tonight attests, a tape of two halves was the product of a band with a split personality. Schizophrenia is classified as a functional psychosis and split personality as a dissociative hysterical neurosis, as different as tonsillitis and appendicitis. LDOCE Alexander Demidov) |
