English noun: major affective disorder |
1. | major affective disorder (state) any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
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| Synonyms | affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bipolar disorder, clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder, mania, manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic disorder, manic-depressive psychosis |
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