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 disease, psychopathy |
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Narrower | insanity | relatively permanent / permanent disorder of the mind |
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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 |
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Opposite | mental health | The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment |
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Spanish | enfermedad mental, psicopatía |
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Catalan | malaltia mental, psicopatia |
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