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MENTAL HEALTH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental health mean?

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

1. the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment

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

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• MENTAL HEALTH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

mental state; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

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

mental balance; mental soundness (the healthy psychological state of someone with good judgment)

saneness; sanity (normal or sound powers of mind)

Antonym:

mental illness (any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention)

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