'Psychosis' definitions:
Definition of 'psychosis'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
Definition of 'Psychosis'
From: GCIDE
- Psychosis \Psy*cho"sis\, n. [NL. See Psycho-.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Any vital action or activity. --Mivart. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'psychosis'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abulia,
- arteriosclerotic psychosis,
- brain disease,
- certifiability,
- crack-up,
- dementia paralytica,
- dipsomania,
- drug addiction,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional instability,
- folie du doute,
- functional nervous disorder,
- functional psychosis,
- general paralysis,
- general paresis,
- insanity,
- maladjustment,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia,
- mental disorder,
- mental illness,
- metabolic psychosis,
- moral insanity,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- neurosis,
- organic psychosis,
- paralytic dementia,
- paranoia,
- pathological drunkenness,
- personality disorder,
- presenile dementia,
- prison psychosis,
- problems in living,
- psychopathia,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychopathic condition,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychopathy,
- reaction,
- schizophrenia,
- senile dementia,
- senile psychosis,
- senility,
- sexual pathology,
- situational psychosis,
- social maladjustment,
- syphilitic paresis,
- toxic psychosis