MANIC DEPRESSION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

Synonyms:

bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("manic depression" is a kind of...):

affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manic depression"):

cyclic disorder; cyclothymia; cyclothymic disorder (a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time)

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