|  psychosis 
 
 any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
 • Derivationally related forms:
 psychotic
 • Hypernyms:
 mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy
 • Hyponyms:
 delirium tremens, DTs, paranoia, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder,
 schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox
 
 
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