English noun: mental disorder |
1. | mental disorder (state) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness |
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| Synonyms | disturbance, folie, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disorder, upset |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aberration, affective disorder, anxiety disorder, Asperger's syndrome, conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction, delirium, delusional disorder, dissociative disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, encopresis, folie a deux, major affective disorder, neurosis, neuroticism, personality disorder, psychoneurosis, psychosomatic disorder, schizothymia |
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| Domain category | psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology |
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