MANIC DISORDER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

Synonyms:

mania; manic disorder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("manic disorder" 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 disorder"):

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria (state of violent mental agitation)