(n): (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
(n): a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
(n): the condition of the economy
(n): an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
(n): a sunken or depressed geological formation
(n): (geology) the geological features of the earth
(n): sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
(n): emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
(n): a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
(n): an era of history having some distinctive feature
(n): an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
(n): a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontally
(n): a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
(n): any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
(n): a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
(n): a shape that curves or bends inward
(n): angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
(n): relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established
(n): pushing down
(n): the act of applying force in order to move something away
There is a difference between being depressed and being dead: One is preferable." (The efficiency of giving people their choice of two possibilities is that they'll take one of them.) --Jan Cox