reactive depression

Questions about reactive depression

What is another word for reactive depression?

It depends which reactive depression you mean. In the sense “an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)”, the synonyms are exogenous depression. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 reactive depression?

WordNet records no antonym for reactive 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 reactive 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 reactive depression

• Full entry for reactive depressionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for reactive depressionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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