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folie
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Noun folie has 1 sense
- folie(n = noun.state) disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness; Array is a kind of disorder, upset
has particulars: asperger's syndrome, anxiety disorder, psychosomatic disorder, aberration, conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction, delirium, delusional disorder, encopresis, folie a deux, personality disorder, affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder, schizothymia, neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis, dissociative disorder
THESAURUS
folie
aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness
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