psychosis
noun/saɪˈkəʊsɪs/
/saɪˈkəʊsɪs/
[countable, uncountable] (plural psychoses
/saɪˈkəʊsiːz/
/saɪˈkəʊsiːz/
)- a serious mental health condition in which somebody sees or hears things that are not there, or believes things that are not true see also psychoticTopics Mental healthc2Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Greek psukhōsis ‘animation’, from psukhoō ‘I give life to’, from psukhē ‘soul, mind’.
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