affective disorder vs emotional disorder

affective disorder and emotional disorder both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
affective disorder	Yes	No	No	No
emotional disorder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, affective disorder and emotional disorder are synonyms defined as:

affective disorder and emotional disorder: any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant

Other synonyms of affective disorder include emotional disturbance, major affective disorder.

affective disorder (noun)	emotional disorder (noun)
any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant	any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant