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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |