mental disease

What does mental disease mean?

mental disease means "any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention".

What is another word for mental disease?

Close synonyms include mental illness, psychopathy. 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 mental disease a common word?

mental disease 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mental disease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.