psychosis
noun, plural psy·cho·ses [-seez] /-siz/. Psychiatry.
Origin of psychosis
Related Words for psychosis
madness, craziness, absurdity, folly, frenzy, alienation, dementia, lunacy, hysteria, irresponsibility, silliness, foolishness, insanity, idiocy, stupidity, mania, delusion, schizophrenia, psychopathy, phobiaExamples from the Web for psychosis
Contemporary Examples of psychosis
Fatigue, sadness, or psychosis is not about choice or laziness or selfishness.
The side effects from the dangerous cocktails of synthetics range from psychosis to death.
Some research suggests use can elevate the risk of psychosis in people already at risk.
There exists a sense of psychosis projected through his paintings, as if genetically passed down from his late grandfather.
Beydoun calls such worries “a distinctly Arab and Muslim American psychosis.”
Historical Examples of psychosis
In some exceptional cases a genuine neurosis or psychosis may develop.
WomanWilliam J. Robinson
If you have a psychosis, you behave in response to delusions or hallucinations.
When You Don't Know Where to TurnSteven J. Bartlett
She was seventy-eight this year, clouded by senility along with the psychosis.
The Trial of Callista BlakeEdgar Pangborn
Then, at the engagement dinner of the brother, the psychosis broke out.
Benign StuporsAugust Hoch
There is, further, the history of a delusion of death during the onset of the psychosis.
Benign StuporsAugust Hoch