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Depression Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Depression? [n] pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter" [n] sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy [n] a sunken or depressed geological formation [n] a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [n] angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) [n] a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [n] a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [n] a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [n] a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [n] an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Depression: clinical depression \| depressive disorder \| economic crisis \| impression \| imprint \| low \| low pressure \| natural depression \| slump \| the Depression \| the Great Depression Related Terms \| Find terms related to Depression: abatement \| abridgment \| abstraction \| abulia \| aching heart \| agony \| agony of mind \| alienation \| alleviation \| alveolation \| alveolus \| anguish \| antrum \| anxiety \| anxiety equivalent \| anxiety state \| apathy \| armpit \| attenuation \| bad times \| bale \| basin \| bitterness \| blank despondency \| blaze \| bleakness \| bleeding heart \| blues \| boom \| bottoming out \| bowl \| broken heart \| business cycle \| business fluctuations \| bust \| catatonic stupor \| cavity \| cheerlessness \| cleft \| comfortlessness \| compulsion \| concave \| concavity \| contraction \| cooling off \| couchancy \| crater \| crena \| crisis \| crushing \| crypt \| cup \| cut \| dampening \| damping \| death wish \| debasement \| decrease \| decrement \| decrescence \| deduction \| deepening \| deflation \| dejectedness \| dejection \| dent \| 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\| incurvation \| incurvature \| incurvity \| indentation \| indifference \| infelicity \| insensibility \| jag \| jog \| joggle \| joylessness \| kerf \| lacuna \| lamentability \| lamentation \| languishment \| lessening \| lethargy \| letup \| low \| low spirits \| lowering \| lowness \| lowness of spirit \| lying \| lying down \| malaise \| mania \| market expansion \| melancholia \| melancholy \| mental distress \| miniaturization \| mining \| misery \| mitigation \| mournfulness \| nick \| nock \| notch \| obsession \| oppression \| pain \| painfulness \| pathological indecisiveness \| pathos \| peak \| peaking \| pessimism \| pit \| pitiability \| pitiableness \| pitifulness \| pocket \| poignancy \| preoccupation \| probing \| proneness \| prosperity \| prostration \| psychalgia \| psychomotor disturbance \| punch bowl \| rainy day \| recess \| recession \| reclining \| recovery \| recumbency \| reduction \| regrettableness \| relaxation \| sad times \| sadness \| sagging \| scaling down \| Schmerz \| scoop \| score \| scotch \| self-destructive urge \| sharpness \| shell \| shortness \| simplicity \| sink \| sinkage \| sinking \| sinking heart \| sinus \| Slough of Despond \| slowdown \| slump \| socket \| sorrowfulness \| spiritlessness \| squatness \| squattiness \| stormy weather \| stumpiness \| stupor \| subjacency \| subtraction \| suicidal despair \| supineness \| taedium vitae \| the blues \| tic \| trough \| tunneling \| twitching \| unhappiness \| unresponsiveness \| upturn \| vug \| weakening \| weariness of life \| withdrawal \| woe \| woebegoneness \| woefulness \| wretchedness See Also \| affective disorder \| agitated depression \| air mass \| anaclitic depression \| angular position \| basin \| bed \| blue funk \| blues \| bottom \| channel \| chap \| click \| concave shape \| concavity \| crack \| cranny \| crater \| crease \| crevice \| crinkle \| cyclone \| deep \| dejection \| demoralisation \| demoralization \| dent \| despondence \| 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wrinkle Depression In Webster's Dictionary \De*pres"sion\, n. [L. depressio: cf. F. d['e]pression.] 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions. 4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride. 5. Dejection; despondency; lowness. In a great depression of spirit. --Baker. 6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness. 7. (Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. 8. (Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations. 9. (Surg.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See {Couch}, v. t., 8. {Angle of depression} (Geod.), one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane. {Depression of the dewpoint} (Meteor.), the number of degrees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere. {Depression of the pole}, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator. {Depression of the visible horizon}. (Astron.) Same as {Dip of the horizon}, under {Dip}. Syn: Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy.

Depression Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Depression?

[n] pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
[n] sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
[n] a sunken or depressed geological formation
[n] a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
[n] angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
[n] a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
[n] a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
[n] a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
[n] a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
[n] an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"

Depression In Webster's Dictionary

\De*pres"sion\, n. [L. depressio: cf. F.
d['e]pression.]
1. The act of depressing.

2. The state of being depressed; a sinking.

3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true
   place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in
   little protuberances and depressions.

4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

5. Dejection; despondency; lowness.

         In a great depression of spirit.      --Baker.

6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

7. (Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below
   the horizon.

8. (Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; --
   said of equations.

9. (Surg.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See
   {Couch}, v. t., 8.

{Angle of depression} (Geod.), one which a descending line
   makes with a horizontal plane.

{Depression of the dewpoint} (Meteor.), the number of degrees
   that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of
   the atmosphere.

{Depression of the pole}, its apparent sinking, as the
   spectator goes toward the equator.

{Depression of the visible horizon}. (Astron.) Same as {Dip
   of the horizon}, under {Dip}.

Syn: Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation;
     dejection; melancholy.

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