MANIC DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manic disorder mean? 

• MANIC DISORDER (noun)
  The noun MANIC DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

  Familiarity information: MANIC DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIC DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mania; manic disorder

Hypernyms ("manic disorder" 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 disorder"):

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria (state of violent mental agitation)