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What is the noun for depression?

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depression
  1. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
  2. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
  3. (psychology) 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.
  4. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
  5. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
  6. (economics) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
  7. (biology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I tried to harness the power of positive thinking to snap me out of my depression.”
      “What might have been a short recession would turn into the greatest depression in our nation's history.”
      “The high interest rates would lead to a depression in the number of homes being sold.”
depressor
  1. Anything that depresses
  2. An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination
  3. Any of several muscles that pull down
  4. Anything that lowers blood pressure
  5. Examples:
    1. “With the nib completely immersed in the ink, fully press down and release the depressor several times until the pen is seen to be full.”
      “The most common instrument for this examination is a tongue depressor which is used in conjunction with a light or other viewing device.”
      “All players exhibited significantly stronger depressor muscles of the scapula on the throwing side compared with the nonthrowing side.”
depressant
depressoid
  1. (pejorative) A depressed or miserable person.
depressingness
  1. The state or quality of being depressing.
depressedness
  1. The state or quality of being depressed.
depressogenic
  1. Any material that causes depression.
depressive
depressiveness
  1. The state of being depressive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The days of deep cuts in the brain in cases of psychoses and depressiveness are over.”
      “The complicity between Smith's beatnik depressiveness and Chaplin's stoical despair enables the photographer to look behind the actor's pretence.”
      “The Road has also been a popular success: readers seem to find the depressiveness of these novels exhilarating.”
depressogenics
  1. plural of depressogenic
depressants
  1. plural of depressant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Interactions with benzodiazepines, pentobarbital, and other central nervous system depressants can yield additional sedative effects.”
      “Phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, and CNS depressants may potentiate the therapeutic and adverse effects of opioids.”
      “These include, but are not limited to, central nervous system depressants, corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, and cancer chemotherapy agents.”
depressions
  1. plural of depression
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In novice marijuana users, rarely in regular users, marijuana may precipitate reactive or neurotic depressions.”
      “Scattered depressions in the desert fill with water after a rainfall, retaining an alkaline residue as the water evaporates.”
      “There are moderate depressions in the lateral surfaces of the ilia posterior and dorsal to the acetabulum.”
depressives
  1. plural of depressive
depressoids
  1. plural of depressoid
depressors
  1. plural of depressor
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