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    AFFECTIVE DISORDER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominantplay

    Synonyms:

    affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("affective disorder" is a kind of...):

    disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affective disorder"):

    clinical depression; depression; depressive disorder (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)

    mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)

    bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness (a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression)

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