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Webster 1913 Edition
Depression
De-pres′sion
,Noun.
[L.
depressio
: cf. F. dépression
.] 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 , 8.
Couch
, Verb.
T.
Syn. – Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Depression
DEPRESSION
, n.1.
The act of pressing down; or the state of being pressed down; a low state.2.
A hollow; a sinking or falling in of a surface; or a forcing inwards; as roughness consisting in little protuberances and depressions; the depression of the skull.3.
The act of humbling; abasement; as the depression of pride; the depression of the nobility.4.
A sinking of the spirits; dejection; a state of sadness; want of courage or animation; as depression of the mind.5.
A low state of strength; a state of body succeeding debility in the formation of disease.6.
A low state of business or of property.7.
The sinking of the polar star towards the horizon, as a person recedes from the pole towards the equator. Also, the distance of a star from the horizon below, which is measured by an arch of the vertical circle or azimuth, passing through the star, intercepted between the star and the horizon.8.
In algebra, the depression of an equation, is the bringing of it into lower and more simple terms by division.Definition 2024
Depression
Depression
See also: depression and dépression
German
Noun
Depression f (genitive Depression, plural Depressionen)
- (economics or psychology) depression
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 9:
- Er war schwermütig geworden, konnte nicht, oder nicht recht arbeiten und hatte Sorge um die Erhaltung seiner Existenz, also melancholische Depression mit Arbeitshemmung und (berechtigter) Lebenssorge.
- He had become melancholic, could not or not well work and had worries about the sustainment of his existence, thus a melancholic depression with work block and (justified) worries about life.
- Er war schwermütig geworden, konnte nicht, oder nicht recht arbeiten und hatte Sorge um die Erhaltung seiner Existenz, also melancholische Depression mit Arbeitshemmung und (berechtigter) Lebenssorge.
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 9:
depression
depression
See also: Depression and dépression
English
Noun
depression (countable and uncountable, plural depressions)
- (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- (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.
- I used to suffer from depression, but now I'm mostly content with my life.
- (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.
- (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
- (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
- The Great Depression was the worst financial event in US history.
- (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
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Translations
geography: low area
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psychology: state of mind
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psychology: period of unhappiness
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meteorology: area of lowered air pressure
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economics: period of major economic contraction
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economics: four consecutive quarters of negative real GDP development
reduction in a biological variable
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See also
- downturn
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