What does manic depressive illness mean?

manic depressive illness means "a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression".

What is another word for manic depressive illness?

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

manic depressive illness 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.

manic depressive illness — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Synonymsbipolar disorder manic depression manic-depressive psychosis
Broaderaffective disorder
Narrowercyclothymia

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