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say it: sahy-KOH-suhs
psychosis is a noun meaning "any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted". It carries one recorded sense.
any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for psychosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.