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Bipolar vs Lunatic - What's the difference?

bipolar | lunatic |

As adjectives the difference between bipolar and lunatic

is that bipolar is bipolar (having two poles) while lunatic is crazed, mad, insane, demented.

As a noun lunatic is

an insane person.

bipolar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Involving or having both extremes or poles) at the same time.
  • * 1992 , Paul Gilbert, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness ,
  • (4) the unipolar-bipolar' distinction is important in regard to these personality variables; the trait of extraversion (associated as it is with positive affectivity) may mean that individual variation here leads to a more ' bipolar pattern; ...
  • * 1997 , David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World ,
  • Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.
  • * 2006 , Leandro Herrero, The Leader with Seven Faces: finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization ,
  • And today, the world has become more and more bipolar .
  • Relating to both polar regions
  • (physics) Relating to a bipole
  • Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
  • * 2005 , Barbara E. Bryden, Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease ,
  • And in both visual artists and creative writers, there is a considerably higher risk of affective disorder, more unipolar (depression only) in artists, and more bipolar (mania and depression) in writers, and leading to higher rates of alcoholism and suicide, particularly in writers (Andreasen 1987; DeLong & Aldershof, 1988; Jamison, 1986, 1995).
  • * 2005 , Robert H. Coombs (editor), Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations ,
  • Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar' in adult life, and because Jay's father was '''bipolar''', I added Depakote to "protect" him against this ' bipolar possibility.
  • * 2006 , Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder
  • If a bipolar' person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is ' bipolar .

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    lunatic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insane person.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • crazed, mad, insane, demented
  • Synonyms

    * crazed, insane, mad, demented, maniacal, psychotic, crazed; see also