GRE Word List
PSYCHOSIS
a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
The meaning of the word psychosis is a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| phenomena | phenomenon |