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mental abnormality — noun any abnormality of mental function • Hypernyms: ↑abnormality, ↑abnormalcy • Hyponyms: ↑organic brain syndrome … Useful english dictionary
Mental Pathology — Mental Pathology † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mental Pathology This subject will be considered under the following headings: I. Localization of Mental Faculties II. Causes of Mental Disturbances III. Varieties of Insanity… … Catholic encyclopedia
Abnormality (behavior) — Abnormality is a subjectively defined characteristic, assigned to those with rare or dysfunctional conditions. Defining who is normal or abnormal is a contentious issue in abnormal psychology. everal conventional criteria*One criterion for… … Wikipedia
Mental disorder — Classification and external resources Eight women representing prominent mental diagnoses in the 19th century. (Armand Gautier) ICD 10 F … Wikipedia
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… … Moby Thesaurus
abnormality — Synonyms and related words: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, anomaly, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness,… … Moby Thesaurus
mental illness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder,… … Moby Thesaurus
mental defectiveness — noun retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence • Syn: ↑abnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑abnormal (for: ↑abnormality) • Hypernyms: ↑retardation, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mental retardation — noun lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal (for: ↑subnormality), ↑ … Useful english dictionary