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clinical depression vs affective disorder

affective disorder vs clinical depression

clinical depression and affective disorder both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
clinical depression Yes No No No
affective disorder Yes No No No
As nouns, affective disorder is a hypernym of clinical depression; that is, affective disorder is a word with a broader meaning than clinical depression:
  • clinical depression: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
  • affective disorder: any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
Other hypernyms of clinical depression include emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder.
clinical depression (noun) affective disorder (noun)
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
Difference between clinical depression and affective disorder

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