psychosis
Noun
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Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted (synset 114421471)
is a type of: mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric interventionsubtypes:
- delirium tremens, dts - acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning
- paranoia - a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
- dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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