Psychosis vs Fantasy - What's the difference?
psychosis | fantasy |
(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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, title= That which comes from one's imagination.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
A fantastical design.
* Hawthorne
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
* 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
As nouns the difference between psychosis and fantasy
is that 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 while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.As a verb fantasy is
(literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).psychosis
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Noun
(wikipedia psychosis) (psychoses)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
Derived terms
* micropsychosis * nonpsychosis * nutmeg psychosisfantasy
English
(wikipedia fantasy)Alternative forms
* phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)Noun
(fantasies)- Is not this something more than fantasy ?
- A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
Derived terms
* high fantasy * low fantasyVerb
- Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
- (Cavendish)
- Which he doth most fantasy .