Mental disease and Psychological disorder

Mental disease

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.
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Psychological disorder and mental disease are semantically related in mental illness topic. In some cases you can use "Psychological disorder" instead a noun phrase "Mental disease".

Psychological disorder

Psychological disorder noun - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.

Mental disease and psychological disorder are semantically related in mental illness topic. Sometimes you can use "Mental disease" instead a noun phrase "Psychological disorder".
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Psychological disorder and Mental disease. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 30, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mental_disease/psychological_disorder
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Psychological disorder or Mental disease. 2016. Accessed July 30, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mental_disease/psychological_disorder.


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