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emotional disorder vs mental disturbance

mental disturbance vs emotional disorder

emotional disorder and mental disturbance both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
emotional disorder Yes No No No
mental disturbance Yes No No No
As nouns, mental disturbance is a hypernym of emotional disorder; that is, mental disturbance 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 disturbance: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Other hypernyms of emotional disorder include disturbance, folie, mental disorder, psychological disorder.
emotional disorder (noun) mental disturbance (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 disturbance

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