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emotional disturbance vs depressive disorder

depressive disorder vs emotional disturbance

emotional disturbance and depressive disorder both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
emotional disturbance Yes No No No
depressive disorder Yes No No No
As nouns, depressive disorder is a hyponym of emotional disturbance; that is, depressive disorder 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
  • depressive disorder: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
emotional disturbance (noun) depressive disorder (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 depressive disorder

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