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depressive disorder vs emotional disorder

emotional disorder vs depressive disorder

depressive disorder and emotional disorder both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
depressive disorder Yes No No No
emotional disorder Yes No No No
As nouns, emotional disorder is a hypernym of depressive disorder; that is, emotional disorder is a word with a broader meaning than depressive disorder:
  • depressive disorder: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
  • 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 hypernyms of depressive disorder include affective disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder.
depressive disorder (noun) emotional 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 depressive disorder and emotional disorder

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