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depression   (TTS Sound)

The noun depression has 10 senses

• depression -- (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)


• depression, slump, economic crisis -- (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)


• natural depression, depression -- (a sunken or depressed geological formation)


• depression -- (sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)


• Depression, Great Depression -- (a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment)


• low, depression -- (an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow")


• depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression -- (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)


• depression, impression, imprint -- (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud")


• depression -- (angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object))


• depression -- (pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter")