severe mental derangement, e.g. schizophrenia, that results in the impairment or loss of contact with reality
The evidence is overwhelming that there is some kind of genetic factor involved in the most serious forms of mental illness, the ‘psychoses’ like schizophrenia — New Internationalist
psychotic /sieʹkotik/ adj and noun
psychotically /sieʹkotikli/ adv