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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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innuendoan oblique allusion : hint
repineto feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
upshotthe final result : outcome
realmkingdom
precipitousprecipitate
misadventuremisfortune
inciteto move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on
fulminateto utter or send out with denunciation
incrustationa crust or hard coating
notcha V-shaped indentation