| affective disorder 
 
 any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
 • Syn:
 major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance
 • Hypernyms:
 mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie
 • Hyponyms:
 depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression, mania, manic disorder,
 bipolar disorder, manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis
 
 
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