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mental disease

See mental illness.

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mental disease - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

mental illness, psychopathy

mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state - (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state"

megalomania - a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

insanity - relatively permanent disorder of the mind

psychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted

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For a few moments she appeared lost in thought, considering, probably, what new methods might be tried to withdraw her lover from so dark a fantasy, which, if it had no other meaning, was perhaps a symptom of mental disease.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

The son of a millionaire, like the son of a king, is seldom free from mental disease.

An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context

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