- affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
--1 is a kind of mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie
--1 has particulars:depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression; mania, manic disorder; bipolar disorder, manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis