affective disorder vs folie

affective disorder and folie both are nouns.

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

As nouns, folie is a hypernym of affective disorder; that is, folie is a word with a broader meaning than affective disorder:

affective disorder: any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
folie: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

Other hypernyms of affective disorder include disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder.

affective disorder (noun)	folie (noun)
any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant	(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness