MENTAL DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental disease mean? 

• MENTAL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun MENTAL DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

  Familiarity information: MENTAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL DISEASE (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 intervention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy

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)

 Context examples 

Anxiety symptoms are common in people with mental diseases and a variety of physical disorders, especially in disorders that are related to stress.

(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)