affective disorder

noun

: mood disorder

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For those people, the sunset anxiety is likely being driven by less exposure to sunlight and an underlying biological predisposition to an affective disorder, Saltz said How Seasonal Affective Disorder is Diagnosed Are There Ways To Cope With Sunset Anxiety? — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 14 Dec. 2024 Suicide rates seem to have almost no relationship with CIDI diagnoses of affective disorder... — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2012

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1857, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of affective disorder was in 1857

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affective disorder

noun
: mood disorder

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