Meaning | Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted. |
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Narrower | delirium tremens, DTs | Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning |
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paranoia | A psychological disorder characterized by delusions ... / delusions of persecution or grandeur |
schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox | Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact |
Broader | mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy | Any disease of the mind |
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Spanish | psicosis, sicosis |
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Catalan | psicosi |
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Adjectives | psychotic | characteristic of or suffering from psychosis |
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