reactive depression

1. 1.

   an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)

   Synonymsexogenous depression

   Broaderdepressive disorder

Questions about reactive depression

What does reactive depression mean?

reactive depression means "an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)".

What is another word for reactive depression?

Close synonyms include exogenous 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 reactive depression a common word?

reactive 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.