mental disease

mental disease

n.

See mental illness.

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Noun

1.

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