clinical depression

Questions about clinical depression

What is another word for clinical depression?

It depends which clinical depression you mean. In the sense “a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention”, the synonyms are depressive disorder, depression. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of clinical depression?

WordNet records no antonym for clinical depression. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for clinical depression come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of clinical depression

• Full entry for clinical depressionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for clinical depressionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.