DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depressive disorder mean? 

• DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (noun)
  The noun DEPRESSIVE DISORDER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DEPRESSIVE DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

clinical depression; depression; depressive disorder

Hypernyms ("depressive disorder" is a kind of...):

affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depressive disorder"):

agitated depression (a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness)

anaclitic depression (severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute)

dysthymia; dysthymic depression (mild chronic depression)

endogenous depression (a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause)

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

major depressive episode ((psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction)

neurotic depression (a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic)

psychotic depression (a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments)

retarded depression (a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action)

 Context examples 

Major depressive disorder is a particular form of the condition which affects many people, potentially causing loss of pleasure in activities that once used to bring joy.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

These include: • Major depressive disorder • Dysthymic disorder (a chronic, mild depression) • Bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)

(Mood Disorders, NIH)

Also called: Clinical depression, Dysthymic disorder, Major depressive disorder, Unipolar depression

(Depression, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Intriguingly, the genetic basis of depressive disorder also overlaps with that for obesity and multiple measures of sleep quality, including daytime sleepiness, insomnia and tiredness.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is the condition that researchers examined during this new study, which showed that living in a deprived area can lead to major depressive disorder in men, but not in women.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)