English
Noun
mental illness (countable and uncountable, plural mental illnesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
- 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Oxford University Press US, ISBN 9780195161649, page 87:
- Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us.
- (countable) A mental disorder.
- 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual, RCPsych Publications ISBN 978-1-901242-75-1, page 70:
- Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.
Translations
property (uncountable)
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精神病 (zh) (jīngshénbìng)
- Finnish: mielisairaus (fi)
- French: maladie mentale (fr) f
- German: Geisteskrankheit (de) f
- Hindi: मानसिक रोग m (mānasik rog)
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- Icelandic: geðveiki (is) f
- Japanese: 精神疾患 (せいしんしっかん, seishin shikkan), 精神病 (せいしんびょう, seishinbyō)
- Russian: душе́вная боле́знь f (dušévnaja boléznʹ), психи́ческое заболева́ние n (psixíčeskoje zabolevánije), помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo), психи́ческое расстро́йство n (psixíčeskoje rasstrójstvo)
- Spanish: enfermedad mental (es) f
- Tagalog: isipning karamdaman
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a mental disorder (countable)
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:
- Czech: duševní choroba f
- Finnish: mielisairaus (fi)
- French: maladie mentale (fr) f
- Hindi: मनोरोग m (manorog)
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- Icelandic: geðsjúkdómur m
- Italian: disturbo mentale m
- Russian: душе́вная боле́знь f (dušévnaja boléznʹ), психи́ческое заболева́ние n (psixíčeskoje zabolevánije)
- Spanish: locura (es) f
- Tagalog: isipning karamdaman
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