psychosis

English

Etymology

From psych- +‎ -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psúkhōsis, “animation, principle of life”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkəʊsɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkoʊsɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
• Homophone: sycosis
• Hyphenation: psych‧o‧sis

Noun

psychosis (countable and uncountable, plural psychoses)

1. (psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

Derived terms

• Korsakoff's psychosis
• micropsychosis
• nonpsychosis
• nutmeg psychosis
• prepsychosis
• prepsychotic
• prison psychosis
• unitary psychosis
• wendigo psychosis

 

Translations

mental disorder

• Arabic: ذُهَان (ar) m (ḏuhān)
• Armenian: փսիխոզ (hy) (pʻsixoz)
• Azerbaijani: psixoz
• Basque: psikosi
• Belarusian: псіхо́з m (psixóz)
• Breton: psikosis
• Bulgarian: психоза (bg) f (psihoza)
• Catalan: psicosi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (Mainland China) 精神錯亂 / 精神错乱 (zh) (jīngshén cuòluàn), (Taiwan) 精神症 (jīngshénzhèng), (Hong Kong) 思覺失調 / 思觉失调 (sījué shītiáo)

• Czech: psychóza (cs) f
• Danish: psykose c
• Dutch: psychose (nl) f
• Esperanto: psikozo
• Estonian: psühhoos
• Finnish: psykoosi (fi)
• French: psychose (fr) f
• Georgian: ფსიქოზი (psikozi)
• German: Psychose (de) f
• Greek: ψύχωση (el) f (psýchosi)
• Hungarian: pszichózis (hu)
• Ido: psikozo
• Indonesian: psikosis (id)
• Irish: síocóis f
• Italian: psicosi (it) f
• Japanese: 精神病 (ja) (せいしんびょう, seishinbyō)
• Korean: 정신증(精神症) (jeongsinjeung)
• Latvian: psihoze f
• Lithuanian: psichozė f
• Macedonian: психоза f (psihoza)
• Maori: mate ahotea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykose m

  Nynorsk: psykose m

• Occitan: psicòsi f
• Persian: پسیکوز (psikoz), روان پریشی (fa) (ravân-pariši)
• Polish: psychoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicose (pt) f
• Romanian: psihoză (ro) f
• Russian: психо́з (ru) m (psixóz)
• Sicilian: pissicusi f, psicusi f
• Slovak: psychóza f
• Spanish: psicosis (es) f
• Swedish: psykos (sv) c
• Tagalog: sikosis
• Turkish: psikoz (tr)
• Ukrainian: психо́з m (psyxóz)
• Welsh: seicosis m, gorffwylledd m