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Noun mental illness has 1 sense

• mental illness(n = noun.state) mental disease, psychopathy - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention; Array
is a kind of mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
has particulars: megalomania, insanity, psychosis
Antonym: mental health

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mental illness

aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack-up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, folie, functional nervous disorder, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, oddness, paranoia, personality disorder, pixilation, possession, problems in living, psychosis, queerness, rabidness, reaction, reasonlessness, schizophrenia, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, social maladjustment, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

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