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INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does involutional depression mean?
• INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION (noun)
The noun INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION has 1 sense:
1. a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
Familiarity information: INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("involutional depression" is a kind of...):
major depressive episode ((psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction)
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