mental instability
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instability — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ increased ▪ growing, increasing ▪ inherent, internal ▪ the inherent instability of financial markets ▪ … Collocations dictionary
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 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
instability — [[t]ɪ̱nstəbɪ̱lɪti[/t]] instabilities N UNCOUNT: also N in pl Instability is the quality of being unstable. ...unpopular policies, which resulted in social discontent and political instability. ...Caligula s inherent mental instability... The… … English dictionary
instability of mental powers — index lunacy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
mental illness — [n] mental disorder depression, emotional disorder, emotional instability, insanity, maladjustment, mania, mental sickness, nervous breakdown, neurosis, neurotic disorder, personality disorder, phobia, psychosis, schizophrenia; concepts 316,410 … New thesaurus
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
instability — in|sta|bil|i|ty [ˌınstəˈbılıti] n plural instabilities [U and C] 1.) when a situation is not certain because there is the possibility of sudden change ≠ ↑stability ▪ the instability of the market ▪ political instability in the region 2.) mental… … Dictionary of contemporary English
instability — noun (U) 1 uncertainty in a situation that is caused by the possibility of sudden change: the instability of the market | political instability 2 mental problems that are likely to cause sudden changes of behaviour: nervous instability … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
instability — in|sta|bil|i|ty [ ,ınstə bıləti ] noun uncount 1. ) a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen: This policy would lead to greater instability in the region. political/economic instability a ) a condition in… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
