psychosis
n.
severe mental disorder including delusions and loss of contact with reality
Psychosis
Psychosis is a generic
psychiatric term for a
mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with
reality". Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines psychosis as "a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning."
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Psychosis
psychosis
Noun
1. any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
(hypernym) mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy
(hyponym) delirium tremens, DTs
Psychosis
(n.)
Any vital action or activity.
(n.)
A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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