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emotional disorder vs mental disorder

mental disorder vs emotional disorder

emotional disorder and mental disorder both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
emotional disorder Yes No No No
mental disorder Yes No No No
As nouns, mental disorder is a hypernym of emotional disorder; that is, mental disorder is a word with a broader meaning than emotional disorder:
  • emotional disorder: any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
  • mental disorder: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Other hypernyms of emotional disorder include disturbance, folie, mental disturbance, psychological disorder.
emotional disorder (noun) mental disorder (noun)
any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Difference between emotional disorder and mental disorder

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