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Depression   /dɪprˈɛʃən/   Listen
Depression

noun
1.
A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.  Antonym: elation.
2.
A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.  Synonyms: economic crisis, slump.
3.
A sunken or depressed geological formation.  Synonym: natural depression.  Antonym: natural elevation.
4.
Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
5.
A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment.  Synonym: Great Depression.
6.
An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation.  Synonym: low.
7.
A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention.  Synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder.
8.
A concavity in a surface produced by pressing.  Synonyms: impression, imprint.
9.
Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10.
Pushing down.



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"Depression" Quotes from Famous Books



... terrors of the unseen world, with which some men are wont to oppress still more failing nature, and break the bruised reed. His business was to cure his patients' bodies; and if he could not do that, at least to see that life was not shortened in them by nervous depression and anxiety. Accustomed to see men of every character die under every possible circumstance, he had come to the conclusion that the "safety of a man's soul" could by no possibility be inferred from his death-bed temper. The vast ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... fatal hour, became herself again. The strong-minded woman of old reappeared. Marechal was more alarmed at this sudden vigor than he had been at her late depression. When he saw Madame Desvarennes going toward the door, he made ...
— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet
... 18th, we had our usual cabal, Trevelyan being again absent, and the same four present as on the previous Saturday. We discussed the proposed Royal Commission on the depression of trade; land purchase, Ireland; party organization; and ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... depression in the center of the island, and here we pitched the tent. The surrounding willows broke the wind ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... former period of depression, such as this, death had come into the Clemens home. It came again now. Little Benjamin, a sensitive, amiable boy of ten, one day sickened, and died within a week, May 12, 1842. He was a favorite child and his death was a terrible blow. Little Sam long remembered ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine


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