clinical depression

Questions about clinical depression

What does clinical depression mean?

clinical depression means "a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention".

What is another word for clinical depression?

Close synonyms include depressive disorder, depression. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clinical depression a common word?

clinical depression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.