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• mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …   Universalium

• mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• disorientation — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, agnosia, alienation, alignment, bearings, befuddlement, bewilderment, block, blocking, bother, botheration, brain damage, brainsickness, chaos, cloud,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• mental illness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• disorientation — noun 1. a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) • Syn: ↑freak out • Hypernyms: ↑delusion, ↑hallucination 2. confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction his… …   Useful english dictionary

• mental block — Synonyms and related words: agnosia, block, blocking, conversion, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, disorientation, flight of ideas, hallucination, hallucinosis, mental confusion, nihilism, nihilistic delusion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• disorientation — n. the state produced by loss of awareness of space, time, or personality. It can be the result of drugs, mental illness, or organic disease and is one of the symptoms tested for in the mental state examination of a patient …   The new mediacal dictionary

• mental confusion — noun a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior a confusion of impressions • Syn: ↑confusion, ↑confusedness, ↑muddiness, ↑disarray • Derivationally related forms: ↑confused ( …   Useful english dictionary

• mental unsoundness — noun a state of mental disturbance and disorientation • Syn: ↑derangement, ↑unbalance • Derivationally related forms: ↑unbalance (for: ↑unbalance), ↑derange (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• disorientation — dis·o·ri·en·ta·tion (dĭs ôr ē ĕn tāʹshən) n. 1. Loss of one s sense of direction, position, or relationship with one s surroundings. 2. Mental confusion or impaired awareness, especially regarding place, time, or personal identity. * * * …   Universalium

• disorientation — Loss of the sense of familiarity with one s surroundings (time, place, and person); loss of one s bearings. * * * dis·ori·en·ta·tion (.)dis .ōr ē ən tā shən, .ȯr , .en n a usu. transient state of confusion esp. as to time, place, or identity… …   Medical dictionary