Synonyms of psychosis

psychosis

noun

as in dementia

a very serious mental illness that makes you behave strangely or believe things that are not true

The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.

Related Words

• dementia
• schizophrenia
• instability
• neurosis
• paranoia
• insanity
• hysteria
• delirium
• mania
• madness
• irrationality
• derangement
• aberration
• lunacy
• frenzy
• unreasonableness
• delusion
• hypomania
• hallucinosis
• rage
• hallucination
• abnormality
• obsession
• senile dementia
• phobia
• monomania
• unsoundness
• dementedness

Dissimilar Words

• rationality
• lucidity
• reasonableness
• normality
• soundness
• reasonability
• sanity
• mind
• rationalness
• saneness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of psychosis

An employee at one public hospital said there are shortages of key specialized psychiatric medicines to treat bipolar disorders and acute psychosis, and more common medications for anxiety and panic disorders. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told manufacturers to remove those warnings in January, saying its review of the science did not find evidence that GLP-1s cause self-harm, depression, psychosis, or other mental health problems. — Jamie Ducharme, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

However chiding his moralism could be, Hawthorne was on intimate terms with American psychosis, the afterbirth of Puritanism. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Eleven of the 12 jurors accepted the defense’s argument that Clancy had acute postpartum psychosis and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026