mental illness vs psychological state

mental illness and psychological state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental illness	Yes	No	No	No
psychological state	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, psychological state is a hypernym of mental illness; that is, psychological state is a word with a broader meaning than mental illness:

mental illness: any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
psychological state: (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic

Other hypernyms of mental illness include mental condition, mental state, psychological condition.

mental illness (noun)	psychological state (noun)
any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention	(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic

mental illness vs psychological state

mental illness and psychological state both are nouns.

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