Usually means: Loss of contact with reality.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word psychosis:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. psychosis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. psychosis: Merriam-Webster
  3. psychosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. psychosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. psychosis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. psychosis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Psychosis, psychosis: Wordnik
  8. psychosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. psychosis: Wiktionary
  10. psychosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. psychosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. psychosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. psychosis: Dictionary.com
  14. psychosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. psychosis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Psychosis (album), Psychosis (disambiguation), Psychosis (film), Psychosis (video game), Psychosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Psychosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. psychosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. psychosis: Rhymezone
  20. psychosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. psychosis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. psychosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. psychosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. psychosis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. psychosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. psychosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Psychosis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Psychosis: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. Psychosis: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. psychosis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  11. -psychosis, psychosis: Medical dictionary
  12. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  14. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  15. Psychosis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See psychoses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

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