Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Psychosis \Psy*cho"sis\, n. [NL. See Psycho-.]
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1. Any vital action or activity. --Mivart.
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2. (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional
mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident
organic changes.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
psychosis
n 1: any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is
lost or highly distorted