mental institution

Questions about mental institution

What does mental institution mean?

mental institution means "a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person".

What is another word for mental institution?

Close synonyms include mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, institution, mental home, insane asylum. 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 institution a common word?

mental institution 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.