mental illness

Questions about mental illness

What does mental illness mean?

mental illness 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 illness?

Close synonyms include mental disease, 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.

What is the opposite of mental illness?

The recorded antonyms are mental health.

Is mental illness a common word?

mental 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.