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Psychosis

//saɪˈkəʊsɪs// noun

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

    "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death."

  2. 2
    any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted wordnet

Etymology

From psych- + -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psúkhōsis, “animation, principle of life”).

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