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emotional disturbance vs clinical depression

clinical depression vs emotional disturbance

emotional disturbance and clinical depression both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
emotional disturbance Yes No No No
clinical depression Yes No No No
As nouns, clinical depression is a hyponym of emotional disturbance; that is, clinical depression is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than emotional disturbance:
  • emotional disturbance: any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
  • clinical depression: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
emotional disturbance (noun) clinical depression (noun)
any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Difference between emotional disturbance and clinical depression

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