psychological disorder

Questions about psychological disorder

What does psychological disorder mean?

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

What is another word for psychological disorder?

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

psychological 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.