major affective disorder vs mental disorder

mental disorder vs major affective disorder

major affective disorder and mental disorder both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
major affective disorder	Yes	No	No	No
mental disorder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental disorder is a hypernym of major affective disorder; that is, mental disorder is a word with a broader meaning than major affective disorder:

major affective disorder: 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 major affective disorder include disturbance, folie, mental disturbance, psychological disorder.

major affective disorder (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

major affective disorder vs mental disorder

major affective disorder and mental disorder both are nouns.

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