depression
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/dɪˈpɹɛʃən/
English
Definitions
noun
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.“I used to suffer from depression, but now I'm mostly content with my life.”
- An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
- An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
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depressive disorderslumpimpressionimprintloweconomic crisisclinical depressionlow pressurenatural depressionabortedfunkdropdepressantweakeningmopedepressive