mental illness

Main Entry:
mental illness []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: emotional disorder
Synonyms: craziness, delusions, depression, derangement, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, insanity, loss of mind, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind
Main Entry: neurosis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental disturbance, disorder
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy
Notes: neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance
Antonyms: adjustment, balance, sanity
Main Entry: brainsickness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: craziness, derangement, insaneness, lunacy, madness, mental disorder, mental illness, psychopathy, psychosis, unsoundness
Main Entry: craziness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: brainsickness, derangement, insaneness, lunacy, madness, mental disorder, mental illness, psychopathy, psychosis, unsoundness
Main Entry: insaneness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, alienation, brainsickness, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, disturbance, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness
Main Entry: psychopathy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, alienation, brainsickness, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, disturbance, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, insaneness, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness
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