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/saɪkˈoʊsəs/ Listen

noun

Psychosis n.

Any vital action or activity.

(Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.

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Etymology of 'Psychosis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Psychosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cochrane firmly. "He shot at me! And in my small way I'm a psychopath too, Bill. My psychosis is that I don't like his kind of psychosis. I am psychotically devoted to sense and my possibly quaint idea of decency. I am abnormally concerned with the real world—and you'd better come back to it! Look here! I'm pathologically in revolt against ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... wild," he added slowly. "It peps them up. It makes the monotony and the weariness bearable. And then, suddenly, they break. They hate the machines and the city and everything they ever knew or did. It's a sort of delayed-action psychosis which goes off with a bang. Some of them go amuck in the city, using their belt-weapons until they're killed. More of them bolt for the jungle. The city loses better than one per cent of its population a year to the jungle. And then they're Ragged Men, half mad at all times and wholly mad as far ...

— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... Jewish physician of Odessa, disturbed by the pogroms of 1881, made a keen analysis of the position of the Jews, declared that anti-Semitism was a psychosis and incurable, that the cause of it was the abnormal condition of Jewish life, and that the only remedy for it was the removal of the cause through self-help and self-liberation. The Jewish people must become an independent nation, settled on the soil of their ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl