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affective disorder vs mental disturbance

mental disturbance vs affective disorder

affective disorder and mental disturbance both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
affective disorder Yes No No No
mental disturbance Yes No No No
As nouns, mental disturbance is a hypernym of affective disorder; that is, mental disturbance 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
  • mental disturbance: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Other hypernyms of affective disorder include disturbance, folie, mental disorder, psychological disorder.
affective disorder (noun) mental disturbance (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
Difference between affective disorder and mental disturbance

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