mental sickness

mental sickness
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  • 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

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  • mental illness — sickness of the mind, mental disorder …   English contemporary dictionary

  • mental illness — noun any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention • Syn: ↑mental disease, ↑psychopathy • Ant: ↑mental health • Derivationally related forms …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Mental health day — In many workplaces throughout the First world, including but not limited to the United States and New Zealand, a mental health day is where an employee does not come to work and takes a sick day, not because of physical sickness, but because he… …   Wikipedia

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  • sickness — n 1. disease, pathology, morbidity, distemper, Pathol. affection, Pathol. idiopathy; infection, virus, Inf. bug, Inf. mulligrubs; ailment, malady, disorder, complaint, illness, affliction, indisposition; ill health, unhealthiness, unsoundness,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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