affective disorder

Questions about affective disorder

What does affective disorder mean?

affective disorder means "any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant".

What is another word for affective disorder?

Close synonyms include major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affective disorder a common word?

affective disorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.