depression
Noun
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is a type of: mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state - (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamicsubtypes:
- melancholia - extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
- blue devils, blues, megrims, vapors, vapours - a state of depression
- blue funk, funk - a state of nervous depression
- melancholy - a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- slough of despond - (formal) extreme depression
- low spirits - a state of mild depression
- dejection - a state of melancholy depression
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is a type of:
- crisis - an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- economic condition - the condition of the economy
specific instances: great depression - the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930ssame as: economic crisis, slump -
is a type of: formation, geological formation - (geology) the geological features of the earthsubtypes:
- basin - a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- bed, bottom - a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- crater - a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
- hole, hollow - a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- lowland - low level country
- sink, sinkhole, swallow hole - a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- deep, oceanic abyss, trench - a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- trough - a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- vale, valley - a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
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is a type of: sadness, unhappiness - emotions experienced when not in a state of well-beingsubtypes:
- demoralisation, demoralization - depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- helplessness - a feeling of being unable to manage
- despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness - feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
- oppression, oppressiveness - a feeling of being oppressed
- dysphoria - abnormal depression and discontent
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is an instance of: age, historic period - an era of history having some distinctive featuresame as: great depression
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is a type of: air mass - a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontallyis a part of: cyclone - (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southernsame as: low
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is a type of: affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominantsubtypes:
- agitated depression - a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness
- anaclitic depression - severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute
- dysthymia, dysthymic depression - mild chronic depression
- endogenous depression - a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause
- exogenous depression, reactive depression - an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)
- major depressive episode - (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction
- neurotic depression - a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic
- psychotic depression - a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments
- retarded depression - a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action
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is a type of: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inwardsubtypes:
- dimple - a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin
- channel, groove - a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- dimple - any slight depression in a surface
- dip - a depression in an otherwise level surface
- dent, incision, prick, scratch, slit - a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- droop, sag - a shape that sags
- crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle - a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- chap, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure - a long narrow depression in a surface
same as: impression, imprint -
is a type of: angular position - relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established
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subtypes: click, mouse click - depression of a button on a computer mouse
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