dysthymia

What does dysthymia mean?

dysthymia means "mild chronic depression".

How many syllables are in dysthymia?

dysthymia has 4 syllables and divides as dys-thy-mi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dysthymia?

Close synonyms include dysthymic 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 dysthymia a common word?

dysthymia 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dysthymia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.