mental disease

Questions about mental disease

What is another word for mental disease?

It depends which mental disease you mean. In the sense “any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention”, the synonyms are mental illness, psychopathy. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mental disease?

WordNet records no antonym for mental disease. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mental disease come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mental disease

• Full entry for mental diseaseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mental diseaseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.