major affective disorder

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsaffective disorderemotional disorderemotional disturbance

   Broadermental disorder

   Narrowerdepressive disordermaniabipolar disorder

Questions about major affective disorder

What does major affective disorder mean?

major 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 major affective disorder?

Close synonyms include 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 major affective disorder a common word?

major 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.