depression : Idioms & Phrases

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agitated depression

  • noun a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness
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anaclitic depression

  • noun severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute
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Angle of depression

  • (Geod.), one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane.
Webster 1913

clinical depression

  • noun a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
    depressive disorder; depression.
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Depression of the dewpoint

  • (Meteor.), the number of degreees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere.
Webster 1913

Depression of the pole

  • its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator.
Webster 1913

Depression of the visible horizon

  • . (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.
Webster 1913

dysthymic depression

  • noun mild chronic depression
    dysthymia.
    • I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia
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endogenous depression

  • noun a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause
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exogenous depression

  • noun an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)
    exogenous depression.
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great depression

  • noun the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
  • noun a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
    Depression.
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involutional depression

  • noun a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
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manic depression

  • noun a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
    manic-depressive psychosis; manic depressive illness; bipolar disorder.
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natural depression

  • noun a sunken or depressed geological formation
    depression.
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neurotic depression

  • noun a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic
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psychotic depression

  • noun a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments
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reactive depression

  • noun an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)
    exogenous depression.
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retarded depression

  • noun a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action
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unipolar depression

  • noun a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occurs in the classic form of bipolar disorder
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