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Psychosis

noun

(pl. psychoses)

Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted.

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"Psychosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cochrane firmly. "He shot at me! And in my small way I'm a psychopath too, Bill. My psychosis is that I don't like his kind of psychosis. I am psychotically devoted to sense and my possibly quaint idea of decency. I am abnormally concerned with the real world—and you'd better come back to it! Look here! I'm pathologically in revolt against ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... wild," he added slowly. "It peps them up. It makes the monotony and the weariness bearable. And then, suddenly, they break. They hate the machines and the city and everything they ever knew or did. It's a sort of delayed-action psychosis which goes off with a bang. Some of them go amuck in the city, using their belt-weapons until they're killed. More of them bolt for the jungle. The city loses better than one per cent of its population a year to the jungle. And then they're Ragged Men, half mad at all times and wholly mad as far ...

— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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