major depressive episode

Noun

Meaning

(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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

depressive disorder

Hypernyms

depression clinical depression depressive disorder

Hyponyms

involutional depression unipolar depression

Examples

Major depressive episode main A major depressive episode is characterized by the presence of a severely depressed mood that persists for at least two weeks. Source: Internet

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