"personality disorder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: personality disorders [plural]
Etymology: personality + disorder Etymology templates: {{com|en|personality|disorder}} personality + disorder Head templates: {{en-noun}} personality disorder (plural personality disorders)
  1. (psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action. Categories (topical): Psychiatry Related terms: mental disorder Translations (class of mental disorders): 人格障礙 (Chinese Mandarin), 人格障碍 (réngé zhàng'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), porucha osobnosti [feminine] (Czech), personlighedsforstyrrelse (Danish), personlighedsstruktur (Danish), persoonlijkheidsstoornis [feminine] (Dutch), persoonallisuushäiriö (Finnish), trouble de la personnalité [masculine] (French), trastorno da personalidade (Galician), Persönlichkeitsstörung [feminine] (German), személyiségzavar (Hungarian), disturbo di personalità [masculine] (Italian), パーソナリティ障害 (pāsonariti shōgai) (Japanese), 人格障害 (jinkaku shōgai) (Japanese), 性格障害 (seikaku shōgai) (Japanese), វិបល្លាសបុគ្គលិកលក្ខណៈ (vi’pallaah bokkea’lɨk leakkʰa’na’) (Khmer), personības traucējumi [masculine, plural] (Latvian), mate haukiri (Maori), zaburzenie osobowości [neuter] (Polish), transtorno de personalidade [masculine] (Portuguese), tulburare de personalitate [feminine] (Romanian), расстро́йство ли́чности (rasstrójstvo líčnosti) [neuter] (Russian), ли́чностное расстро́йство (líčnostnoje rasstrójstvo) [neuter] (Russian), trastorno de la personalidad [masculine] (Spanish), personlighetsstörning [common-gender] (Swedish), kişilik bozukluğu (Turkish), şahsiyet bozukluğu (Turkish), ро́злад особи́стості (rózlad osobýstosti) [masculine] (Ukrainian), rối loạn nhân cách (Vietnamese)

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