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精神病 (せいしんびょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

精せい神しん病びょう

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Meanings

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noun

mental illness; psychosis

Broad term covering mental disorders; in medical contexts often refers to psychosis, but in everyday use can mean any serious mental illness.

彼かれは精せい神しん病びょうで入にゅう院いんしている。
He is hospitalized for a mental illness.
精せい神しん病びょうの治ち療りょうには時じ間

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Treatment for mental illness often takes time.

Kanji

精refined, ghost, fairy
神gods, mind, soul
病ill, sick

Similar words

精せい神しん疾しっ患かん
More formal and clinical term for mental disorder; often used in medical contexts.
心こころの病やまい
Softer, more euphemistic expression for mental illness, common in everyday speech.

Etymology

Compound of 精神 (mind, spirit) and 病 (illness). The exact historical derivation is straightforward; the term has been used since the Meiji era as a translation of Western medical concepts.