mental disturbance

Questions about mental disturbance

What does mental disturbance mean?

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

What is another word for mental disturbance?

Close synonyms include mental disorder, 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 disturbance a common word?

mental disturbance 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.