depressiveness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being depressive; tendency to depress.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being depressive.

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Examples

  • The Road has also been a popular success: readers seem to find the depressiveness of these novels exhilarating.

    Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011

  • All the frantic, flailing arm moves imposed on her by professional choreographers can't disguise her essential depressiveness and spiritual paralysis, registered in her videos in her often inert torso ....

    Notable 2010

  • There's no such sister, of course, in the Twilight movies to rationalize Bella's depressiveness, alienation and her attraction to the undead and the vulpine -- though part of it stems from her parents' split.

    Graham Fuller: Twenty Incredibly Serious Minutes With Kristen Stewart Graham Fuller 2010

  • There's no such sister, of course, in the Twilight movies to rationalize Bella's depressiveness, alienation and her attraction to the undead and the vulpine -- though part of it stems from her parents 'split.

    Graham Fuller: Twenty Incredibly Serious Minutes With Kristen Stewart Graham Fuller 2010

  • He seems rather to have slipped through the critical net, maybe because he didn't deal in the to my mind rather cliched noir depressiveness, with the inevitable failure of love.

    John McPartland Ed Gorman 2009

  • And the viewers would, if not literally stand up and cheer, pay more attention and experience a bit less depressiveness and cynicism at the whole "process."

    Ellis Weiner: Better Q or No A for You! 2008

  • He seems rather to have slipped through the critical net, maybe because he didn't deal in the to my mind rather cliched noir depressiveness, with the inevitable failure of love.

    John Fraser--John McPartland Ed Gorman 2007

  • He seems rather to have slipped through the critical net, maybe because he didn't deal in the to my mind rather cliched noir depressiveness, with the inevitable failure of love.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • I do not think that i portray/convey anger/depressiveness very well, don't think i deal nor cope with it well, it goes against the natural fibre of my being and it tends to make me react in odd ways, sometimes in the way of becoming withdrawn, even less often in the way of lashing out.

    September 26th, 2005 mynxii 2005

  • I pointed out that his chronic depressiveness was due to a series of choices he had made out of fear - to stay in a marriage he hated at the time because he didn't want to be alone, to take the safe road at work for fear of losing his job, to ignore friends because he's not a people person.

    So Who Do I Complain To? 2004

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