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emotional disturbance vs mental disorder

mental disorder vs emotional disturbance

emotional disturbance and mental disorder both are nouns.

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

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