psychosis (redirected from Alcoholic psychoses)

psy·cho·sis  (s-kss)

n. pl. psy·cho·ses (-sz)

A severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning.

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psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs]

n pl -choses [-ˈkəʊsiːz]

(Psychiatry) any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual's contact with reality becomes highly distorted Compare neurosis

[New Latin, from psycho- + -osis]

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psychosis  (s-kss)

Plural psychoses (s-ksz)

A mental state caused by psychiatric or organic illness, characterized by a loss of contact with reality and an inability to think rationally. A psychotic person often behaves inappropriately and is incapable of normal social functioning.

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psychotic adjective (s-ktk)

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psychosis

any severe mental disorder or disease. — psychotic, n., adj.

See also: Insanity

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

psychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention delirium tremens, DTs - acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning paranoia - a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Translations

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] N (psychoses (pl)) [saɪˈkəʊsiːz] → psicosis f inv

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] [psychoses] [saɪˈkəʊsiːz] (pl) n → psychose f

psychosis

n pl <psychoses> → Psychose f

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] n (psychoses (pl)) [saɪˈkəʊsiːz‘] → psicosi f inv

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psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] n (psychoses (pl)) [saɪˈkəʊsiːz‘] → psicosi f inv