Definition of Depression

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Depression

The act of depressing.

The state of being depressed; a sinking.

A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

Dejection; despondency; lowness.

Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.

A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.

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Depression Quotations

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover

Depression Translations

depression in Afrikaans is krisis
depression in Dutch is depressie
depression in Norwegian is nedtrykking, depresjon

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