Antonym: encouragement, inspiration. Similar words: impression, depressed, aggression, congressional, session, impressive, recession, profession. Meaning: [-eʃn] 
n. 1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment 3. a sunken or depressed geological formation 4. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 5. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment 6. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation 7. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention 8. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 9. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) 10. pushing down.
n. 1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment 3. a sunken or depressed geological formation 4. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 5. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment 6. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation 7. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention 8. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 9. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) 10. pushing down. 
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1, He was in a state of permanent depression.
2, He suffers from acute depression.
3, She displayed the classic symptoms of depression.
4, Many people were idle during the depression.
5, Depression can be traced to holding in anger.
6, He committed suicide during a fit of depression.
7, A depression usually brings bad weather.
8, She suffers from bouts of lethargy and depression.
9, Mr Thomas was suffering from depression.
10, I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression.
11, A holiday will help his depression.
12, She suffered from severe depression after losing her job.
13, The actor says he suffers frequent bouts of depression.
14, He was in the depths of despair/depression about losing his job.
15, Decisions on their own depression and self-assertion perk this is a woman.
16, The symptoms of depression can include poor appetite and weight loss.
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18, He just can't snap out of the depression he's had since his wife died.
19, Depression is often hereditary.
20, One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off.
21, Jan's depression seemed to be lifting at last.
22, She's been undergoing counseling for depression.
23, These results should not be a cause for depression.
24, Withdrawal is a classic symptom of depression.
25, Depression is almost always accompanied by insomnia.
26, New mothers often complain of lethargy and mild depression.
27, It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues.
28, I have been on sick leave for seven months with depression.
29, She continued to have severe stomach cramps, aches, fatigue, and depression.
30, Many people lost their jobs because of the economic depression.
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