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/mˈɛntəl dɪstˈərbəns/ Listen

Mental disturbance

noun

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness. Synonyms: disturbance, folie, mental disorder, psychological disorder.

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... because it always expresses itself in the forms of real life, in the supposed experiences of men and women. These men and women are usually in a state of mental disturbance or conflict; indeed, they think much more than they act. But their thinking tends habitually to a practical result; and it keeps up our sense of their reality by clothing itself always in the most practical and picturesque language which thought can assume. It has been ...

— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

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