depressive disorder

Questions about depressive disorder

What does depressive disorder mean?

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

What is another word for depressive disorder?

Close synonyms include clinical depression, 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 depressive disorder a common word?

depressive disorder 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.