MENTAL ABNORMALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental abnormality mean? 

• MENTAL ABNORMALITY (noun)
  The noun MENTAL ABNORMALITY has 1 sense:

1. any abnormality of mental function

  Familiarity information: MENTAL ABNORMALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL ABNORMALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any abnormality of mental function

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mental abnormality" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental abnormality"):

organic brain syndrome (mental abnormality resulting from disturbance of the structure or function of the brain)

 Context examples 

A physical or cognitive mental abnormality caused by maternal alcohol consumption and its toxic effect on the developing embryo during pregnancy.

(Alcohol Related Birth Defect, NCI Thesaurus)