mental disorder vs major affective disorder

major affective disorder vs mental disorder

mental disorder and major affective disorder both are nouns.

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

As nouns, major affective disorder is a hyponym of mental disorder; that is, major affective disorder 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
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

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

mental disorder (noun)	major affective disorder (noun)
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness	any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant

Difference between mental disorder and major affective disorder

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