Medical Dictionary

personality disorder

noun

Medical Definition of PERSONALITY DISORDER

:  a psychopathological condition or group of conditions in which an individual's entire life pattern is considered deviant or nonadaptive although the individual shows neither neurotic symptoms nor psychotic disorganization

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