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major depressive episode

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  • noun (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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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. clinical depression
  2. depression
  3. depressive disorder

hyponyms (2)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. involutional depression
  2. unipolar depression

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