Psychosis Definition

sī-kōsĭs
psychoses
noun
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, paranoid, or bipolar type), and b) organic (characterized by a pathological organic condition such as brain damage or disease, metabolic disorders, etc.)
Webster's New World

(psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

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psychosis
Plural:
psychoses

Origin of Psychosis

  • From psych- +"Ž -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psykhosis, “animation, principle of life").

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