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PSYCHOSIS
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Irregular inflected form: psychoses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("psychosis" is a kind of...):
mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy (any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychosis"):
delirium tremens; DTs (acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning)
paranoia (a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur)
dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
Derivation:
psychotic (characteristic of or suffering from psychosis)
