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psychosis

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of psychosis

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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of psychosis

aberration, dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia

senile dementia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of psychosis

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness

mind, saneness, sanity

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