Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acute or chronic mental state marked by loss of contact with reality, disorganized speech and behavior, and often by hallucinations or delusions, seen in certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, and other medical disorders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental constitution or condition.
- noun A change in the field of consciousness.
- noun In pathology, any mental disorder; any form of insanity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any vital action or activity.
- noun (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun psychology A
severe mental disorder , sometimes withphysical damage to thebrain , marked by aderanged personality and adistorted view ofreality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
Etymologies
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Examples
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I use the term "social psychosis" because a psychosis is a mental state in which a person shows a diminished or loss of a sense of reality.
Douglas LaBier: A Rising "Social Psychosis" in Public and Private Life Douglas LaBier 2010
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I use the term "social psychosis" because a psychosis is a mental state in which a person shows a diminished or loss of a sense of reality.
Douglas LaBier: A Rising "Social Psychosis" in Public and Private Life Douglas LaBier 2010
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They are too weak to admin failure psychologically, and this psychosis is the very doctrine the reichwing lives under.
Think Progress » Brown Resigns, He Should Have Been Fired 2005
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Being engulfed in psychosis was the best intoxication I ever had.
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The Mad, well there are bloomin loads of these, thanks to over use of amphet and cannabis mental illness and psychosis is common.
Keep The Coffee Coming « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Funny how that psychosis is consistent – right tommie?
Think Progress » Rice Suggests Iraq War Resolution Could Allow For War Against Syria 2005
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Her psychosis is in fact very similar to that of Osama.
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For the CDC to suggest that "Mefloquine has rarely been reported to cause serious side effects, such as seizures, depression and psychosis" is absolutely incredible since the actual numbers are closer to 1 in 200.
05/21/2004 2004
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Ray would later put the museum thing down to a certain nihilism instilled by all that final-year, second-term psychosis, but in truth it was merely another instance of late-night drinking spawning an idea so intoxicating that the next morning failed to sober them of it.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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(Manic-depressive psychosis is an older term for the same kind of disorders).
whichbe commented on the word psychosis
Look out for my sibling, she's nuts.
June 26, 2009