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MENTAL CASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person suffering from neurosis
Synonyms:
mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mental case" is a kind of...):
diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental case"):
claustrophobe (a person suffering from claustrophobia)
hysteric (a person suffering from hysteria)
obsessive (a person who has obsessions)
obsessive-compulsive (a person with obsessive-compulsive characteristics)
psychopath; sociopath (someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath'))
