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    MANIC DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depressionplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("manic depressive illness" 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 depressive illness"):

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

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