Depression

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See also: depression and dépression

English

Proper noun

the Depression

  1. Synonym of Great Depression.

Anagrams

German

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /depʁɛˈsi̯oːn/
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Noun

Depression f (genitive Depression, plural Depressionen)

  1. (economics, geography, psychology) depression
    • 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 9:
      Er war schwermütig geworden, konnte nicht, oder nicht recht arbeiten und hatte Sorge um die Erhaltung seiner Existenz, also melancholische Depression mit Arbeitshemmung und (berechtigter) Lebenssorge.
      He had become melancholic, could not or not well work and had worries about the sustainment of his existence, thus a melancholic depression with work block and (justified) worries about life.

Declension

Declension of Depression
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Depression die Depressionen
genitive einer der Depression der Depressionen
dative einer der Depression den Depressionen
accusative eine die Depression die Depressionen

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