bipolar disorder

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   a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

   Synonymsmanic depressionmanic depressive illnessmanic-depressive psychosis

   Broaderaffective disorder

   Narrowercyclothymia

Questions about bipolar disorder

What does bipolar disorder mean?

bipolar disorder means "a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression".

What is another word for bipolar disorder?

Close synonyms include manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. 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 bipolar disorder a common word?

bipolar 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.