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Meaning of depression

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  depression
      n 1: a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of
           inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [ant:
           {elation}]
      2: a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and
         low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn:
         {depression}, {slump}, {economic crisis}]
      3: a sunken or depressed geological formation [syn: {natural
         depression}, {depression}] [ant: {elevation}, {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 [syn: {Depression}, {Great
         Depression}]
      6: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a
         low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: {low},
         {depression}]
      7: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require
         clinical intervention [syn: {depressive disorder}, {clinical
         depression}, {depression}]
      8: a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the
         impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn:
         {depression}, {impression}, {imprint}]
      9: angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial
         object)
      10: pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the
          typewriter"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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