emotional disorder vs affective disorder

emotional disorder and affective disorder both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
emotional disorder	Yes	No	No	No
affective disorder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, emotional disorder and affective disorder are synonyms defined as:

emotional disorder and 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 synonyms of emotional disorder include emotional disturbance, major affective disorder.

emotional disorder (noun)	affective disorder (noun)
any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant	any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant