mental illness vs mental disease

mental disease vs mental illness

mental illness and mental disease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental illness	Yes	No	No	No
mental disease	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental illness and mental disease are synonyms defined as:

mental illness and mental disease: any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

Other synonyms of mental illness include psychopathy.

mental illness (noun)	mental disease (noun)
any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention	any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

Difference between mental illness and mental disease

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