Synonyms of major depressive episode

Noun


1. major depressive episode, depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression

usage: (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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