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Noun: psychosis (psychoses)  sI'kow-sis
  1. Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
    "The patient's psychosis caused her to experience vivid hallucinations"

Sounds like: sycosis

Derived forms: psychoses

Type of: mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy

Encyclopedia: Psychosis