emotional disturbance vs folie

emotional disturbance and folie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
emotional disturbance	Yes	No	No	No
folie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folie is a hypernym of emotional disturbance; that is, folie is a word with a broader 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
folie: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

Other hypernyms of emotional disturbance include disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder.

emotional disturbance (noun)	folie (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