psychosis C2 Topic:Health & Medicine US /saɪˈkoʊsɪs/ UK /saɪˈkəʊsɪs/ See IPA manual Freq #18415 Meanings 1 noun a severe mental state involving impaired contact with reality, often including delusions or hallucinations The clinician distinguished acute psychosis from ordinary emotional distress. 2 noun historical psychology: the total mental process or organization of the mind The older author used psychosis for the mental process initiated by bodily change. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a severe mental state... psychotic disorderloss of reality testing 2 noun · historical psychology: the... mental processpsychic state ↔ Opposites lucidityreality testing Word family Derived forms psychotic Related forms delusionhallucinationpsyche Etymology Formed from psych- ("mind") + -osis ("condition, process"), or directly from Ancient Greek psykhosis ("animation"). Its modern clinical sense developed in nineteenth-century psychiatry. Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # psychosis **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /saɪˈkoʊsɪs/ **IPA (UK):** /saɪˈkəʊsɪs/ **Frequency rank:** 18415 ## Meanings 1. a severe mental state involving impaired contact with reality, often including delusions or hallucinations 2. historical psychology: the total mental process or organization of the mind ## Examples - The clinician distinguished acute psychosis from ordinary emotional distress. - The older author used psychosis for the mental process initiated by bodily change. ## Synonyms - psychotic disorder - loss of reality testing ## Antonyms - lucidity - reality testing ## Derived Forms - psychotic ## Related Forms - delusion - hallucination - psyche ## Etymology Formed from psych- ("mind") + -osis ("condition, process"), or directly from Ancient Greek psykhosis ("animation"). Its modern clinical sense developed in nineteenth-century psychiatry. ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown