English noun: clinical depression |
1. | clinical depression (state) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention |
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| Synonyms | depression, depressive disorder |
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| Broader (hypernym) | affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agitated depression, anaclitic depression, dysthymia, dysthymic depression, endogenous depression, exogenous depression, major depressive episode, neurotic depression, psychotic depression, reactive depression, retarded depression |
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