Psychosis

Noun

 * 1)  A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

Thesaurus
abulia, arteriosclerotic psychosis, brain disease, certifiability, crack-up, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, drug addiction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, folie du doute, functional nervous disorder, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, insanity, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, paranoia, pathological drunkenness, personality disorder, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, problems in living, psychopathia, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, reaction, schizophrenia, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, situational psychosis, social maladjustment, syphilitic paresis, toxic psychosis

Etymology
From or from  ψύχωσις:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 精神病
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 * Greek: ψύχωση
 * Japanese: 精神病
 * Polish:
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 * Russian: психоз
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 * Swedish: psykos