mental illness

English

Noun

mental illness (countable and uncountable, plural mental illnesses)

1. (uncountable, psychology) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
   • 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation,^[1] 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.

2. (countable, psychology) A mental disorder.
   • 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual,^[2] 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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)

• 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)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• 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

a mental disorder (countable)

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: duševní choroba f
• Finnish: mielisairaus (fi)
• French: maladie mentale (fr) f
• Hindi: मनोरोग m (manorog)

• Icelandic: geðsjúkdómur m
• Italian: disturbo mentale m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: душе́вная боле́знь f (dušévnaja boléznʹ), психи́ческое заболева́ние n (psixíčeskoje zabolevánije)
• Spanish: locura (es) f
• Tagalog: isipning karamdaman