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depressive disorder vs emotional disturbance

emotional disturbance vs depressive disorder

depressive disorder and emotional disturbance both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
depressive disorder Yes No No No
emotional disturbance Yes No No No
As nouns, emotional disturbance is a hypernym of depressive disorder; that is, emotional disturbance 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 disturbance: 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 disorder, major affective disorder.
depressive disorder (noun) emotional disturbance (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 disturbance

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