Manic depression (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Synonyms:
bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("manic depression" is a kind of...):
affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manic depression"):
cyclic disorder; cyclothymia; cyclothymic disorder (a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time)