depressive disorder vs major affective disorder

major affective disorder vs depressive disorder

depressive disorder and major affective disorder both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
depressive disorder	Yes	No	No	No
major affective disorder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, major affective disorder is a hypernym of depressive disorder; that is, major affective 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
major 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 depressive disorder include affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance.

depressive disorder (noun)	major 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

depressive disorder vs major affective disorder

depressive disorder and major affective disorder both are nouns.

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