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Depressive vs Psychosis - What's the difference?

depressive | psychosis |

As an adjective depressive

is .

As a noun psychosis is

(label) a severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

depressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing depression; dispiriting.
  • Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
  • Relative to, characteristic of depression.

    • Derived terms

    * depressively * depressiveness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person suffering from depression.
    • ----

    psychosis

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia psychosis) (psychoses)
  • (label) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
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    Derived terms

    * micropsychosis * nonpsychosis * nutmeg psychosis