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    MENTAL DISEASE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric interventionplay

    Synonyms:

    mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("mental disease" is a kind of...):

    mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental disease"):

    megalomania (a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur)

    insanity (relatively permanent disorder of the mind)

    psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)

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