psychosis
noun
psy·cho·sis
sī-ˈkō-səs 
plural psychoses
sī-ˈkō-ˌsēz
: a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
Examples of psychosis in a Sentence
The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.
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One silver lining that surrounds the five years of psychosis Close underwent getting revenge on Stone is that 103 Dalmatians took up all her time.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
The last story contrasts private psychosis and domestic abuse with everyday materialism.
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Yet exactly what caused his psychosis became a subject of intense debate among clinicians who examined him.
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But amid the psychosis, the singer suffered from extreme paranoia, fear, and delusions that steadily separated him from reality.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
The last story contrasts private psychosis and domestic abuse with everyday materialism.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
Yet exactly what caused his psychosis became a subject of intense debate among clinicians who examined him.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
But amid the psychosis, the singer suffered from extreme paranoia, fear, and delusions that steadily separated him from reality.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
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“Psychosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychosis. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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psychosis
noun
psy·cho·sis
sī-ˈkō-səs
plural psychoses
-ˈkō-ˌsēz
: a serious mental illness marked by loss of or greatly lessened ability to test whether what one is thinking and feeling about the real world is really true
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psychosis
noun
psy·cho·sis
sī-ˈkō-səs
plural psychoses
-ˌsēz
: a serious mental illness (as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
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