mental disturbance

Questions about mental disturbance

What is another word for mental disturbance?

It depends which mental disturbance you mean. In the sense “(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness”, the synonyms are mental disorder, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 disturbance?

WordNet records no antonym for mental disturbance. 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 disturbance 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 disturbance

• Full entry for mental disturbanceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mental disturbanceWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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