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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

... 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

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