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affective disorder vs psychological disorder

psychological disorder vs affective disorder

affective disorder and psychological disorder both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
affective disorder Yes No No No
psychological disorder Yes No No No
As nouns, psychological disorder is a hypernym of affective disorder; that is, psychological disorder 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
  • psychological disorder: (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, mental disturbance.
affective disorder (noun) psychological disorder (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 psychological disorder

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