Meaning Of The Word Psychosis

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What's The Definition Of Psychosis?

psychosis
variable noun: Psychosis is mental illness of a severe kind which can make people lose contact with reality.

psychosis in American English
a major mental disorder in which the personality is very seriously disorganized and contact with reality is usually impaired: psychoses are of two sorts, a) functional (characterized by lack of apparent organic cause, and principally of the schizophrenic,
noun: a disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality

psychosis in British English
noun: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual's contact with reality becomes highly distorted, for example by experiencing hallucinations or delusions

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