All mental disorder synonyms

noun mental disorder

• craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
• absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
• folly — the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
• frenzy — extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
• alienation — a turning away; estrangement
• dementia — Dementia is a serious illness of the mind.
• lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
• hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
• irresponsibility — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
• foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
• mental illness — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
• personality disorder — any of a group of mental disorders characterized by deeply ingrained maladaptive patterns of behavior and personality style, which are usually recognizable as early as adolescence and are often lifelong in duration.
• schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
• unbalance — to throw or put out of balance.
• derangement — Derangement is the state of being mentally ill and unable to think or act in a controlled way.
• madness — the state of being mad; insanity.
• insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
• psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
• phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• dotage — a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
• senselessness — destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
• neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
• mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
• delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
• hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
• inanity — lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
• irrationality — the quality or condition of being irrational.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• distraction — the act of distracting.
• psychosis — a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
• fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
• disturbance — the act of disturbing.
• softening of the brain — a softening of the cerebrum, caused by impairment of the blood supply; encephalomalacia.
• alzheimer's disease — Alzheimer's disease is a condition in which a person's brain gradually stops working properly.
• preposterous — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
• unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
• witlessness — lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
• maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
• mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• paranoia — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
• insane — not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
• unsound — not sound; unhealthy, diseased, or disordered, as the body or mind.
• brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad