MEANING
A mental state involving significant difficulty distinguishing internal experiences or beliefs from external reality, often with hallucinations or delusions.
Use it for
subjective reality disturbance; unreliable perception; carefully researched psychological narratives
Words that belong together
- an episode of psychosis
- symptoms of psychosis
On the page
The clinician considered whether the reported voices were part of psychosis.
The memoir describes an episode of psychosis without portraying the patient as dangerous.
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Word forms
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- psychosis
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural psychoses for distinct conditions or episodes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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