| NOUN | state | psychopathy, mental illness, mental disease | any disease of the mind |
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| Sounds | saykaa'pahthiy | |
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| Rhymes | antipathy ... wealthy: 23 rhymes with thiy... | |
| Meaning | Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention. | |
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| Synonyms | mental illness, mental disease | |
| Narrower | insanity | relatively permanent / permanent disorder of the mind |
| megalomania | A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | |
| psychosis | Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted | |
| Broader | psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic |
| Opposite | mental health | The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment |
| Spanish | enfermedad mental, psicopatía | |
| Catalan | malaltia mental, psicopatia | |
| Adjectives | psychopathic | suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder |
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