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psychotic.

Adjective
HorrorLiterary
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Relating to serious disturbances in perceiving or interpreting shared reality.

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  • psychotic episode

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The clinician assessed a psychotic episode.
The report described psychotic symptoms.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable in clinical or relational use; degree comparison is limited to naturally gradable figurative applications. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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