How many syllables in schizophrenia?

There are 5 syllables in the word schizophrenia.

How to pronounce schizophrenia:

schizophrenia (noun):: any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.; a mental illness that is characterized by disturbances in thought (such as delusions), perception (such as hallucinations), and behavior (such as disorganized speech or catatonic behavior), by a loss of emotional responsiveness and extreme apathy, and by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life

aberration

acute schizophrenic episode

borderline schizophrenia

catatonia

catatonic schizophrenia

catatonic type schizophrenia

delirium

dementia

dementia praecox

derangement

disorganized schizophrenia

disorganized type schizophrenia

frenzy

hallucinosis

hebephrenic schizophrenia

hypomania

hysteria

insanity

instability

irrationality

latent schizophrenia

lunacy

madness

mania

neurosis

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