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Pathological vs Psychotic - What's the difference?

pathological | psychotic |

As adjectives the difference between pathological and psychotic

is that pathological is pertaining to pathology while psychotic is of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.

As a noun psychotic is

a person affected by psychosis.

pathological

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
  • (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
  • (mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
  • (computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.

    • Synonyms

    * pathologic

    Antonyms

    * (mathematics)

    Derived terms

    * pathologically

    psychotic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person affected by psychosis.