mental disorder

Questions about mental disorder

What does mental disorder mean?

mental disorder means "(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness".

What is another word for mental disorder?

Close synonyms include mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie. 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 disorder a common word?

mental 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.