Depression (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the act of depressing.
  2. the state of being depressed.
  3. a depressed or sunken place or part; an area lower than the surrounding surface.
  4. sadness; gloom; dejection.
  5. a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason.
  6. dullness or inactivity, as of trade.
  7. a period during which business, employment, and stock-market values decline severely or remain at a very low level of activity.
  8. Great Depression.
  9. a low state of vital powers or functional activity.
  10. the angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon; negative altitude.
  11. angle of depression.
  12. an area completely or mostly surrounded by higher land, ordinarily having interior drainage and not conforming to the valley of a single stream.
  13. an area of low atmospheric pressure.
noun
  1. the act of depressing or state of being depressed
  2. a depressed or sunken place or area
  3. a mental disorder characterized by extreme gloom, feelings of inadequacy, and inability to concentrate
  4. an abnormal lowering of the rate of any physiological activity or function, such as respiration
  5. an economic condition characterized by substantial and protracted unemployment, low output and investment, etc; slump
  6. a large body of rotating and rising air below normal atmospheric pressure, which often brings rain
  7. (esp in surveying and astronomy) the angular distance of an object, celestial body, etc, below the horizontal plane through the point of observation
noun
  1. the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
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