mental disorder vs aberration

aberration vs mental disorder

mental disorder and aberration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental disorder	Yes	No	No	No
aberration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, aberration is a hyponym of mental disorder; that is, aberration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mental disorder:

mental disorder: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
aberration: a disorder in one's mental state

Other hyponyms of mental disorder include Asperger's syndrome, anxiety disorder, psychosomatic disorder, conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction, delirium, delusional disorder, encopresis, folie a deux, personality disorder, affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder, schizothymia, neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis, dissociative disorder.

mental disorder (noun)	aberration (noun)
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness	an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
	a disorder in one's mental state
	a state or condition markedly different from the norm

Difference between mental disorder and aberration

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