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noun

Depression n.

1.

The act of depressing.

2.

The state of being depressed; a sinking.

3.

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

4.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

5.

Dejection; despondency; lowness. "In a great depression of spirit."

6.

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

7.

(Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

8.

(Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; said of equations.

9.

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

Angle of depression (Geod.), one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane.

Depression of the dewpoint (Meteor.), the number of degrees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere.

Depression of the pole, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator.

Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.

Synonyms: Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy.

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Etymology of 'Depression'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Depression" Quotes from Famous Books

... feeling for moral improvement, which is gratified by the view of poetical justice in the reward of the good and the punishment of the wicked. But he for whom the aspect of such dreadful examples could really be wholesome, must be conscious of a base feeling of depression, very far removed from genuine morality, and would experience humiliation rather than elevation of mind. Besides, poetical justice is by no means indispensable to a good tragedy; it may end with the suffering of the just and the triumph ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

... certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go; that the point varied with various textures of brain and peculiarities of constitution, as he had had occasion to notice in several of his learned brothers; but the point of endurance passed by a line's breadth, depression and dyspepsia ensued. Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? Bishop said that when he was a young man, and had fallen for a brief space into the habit of writing sermons on Saturdays, ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... command had been "dug out" for me well forward on the left flank by Hunter-Weston. In that hole two enormous tarantulas and I passed a day that seems to me ten years. The torture of suspense; the extremes of exaltation and of depression; the Red Indian necessity of showing no sign: all this varied only by the vicious scream of shell sailing some 30 feet over our heads on their way towards the 60 pounders near the point. A Commander feels desperately lonely at such moments. On him, and on him alone, falls ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... into a more mountainous region, inhabited exclusively by nomad Koords; from points of vantage their tents are observable clustered here and there at the bases of the mountains. Descending into a grassy valley or depression, I find myself in close proximity to several different camps, and eagerly avail myself of the opportunity to pass a night among them. I am now in the heart of Northern Koordistan, which embraces both Persian and Turkish territory, and the ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... passage through which they had just passed. Rex and Brook undertook to do this; and as they had already agreed what the mark should be, these two began, with the aid of the sledge-hammer and a spike, to chip in the face of the rock a circular depression on the right-hand side of the passage, at a height of about three feet from the ground, so that it could easily be found and identified in the dark by a mere touch of the hand. Leaving these two busily employed, Lance and Captain Staunton hurried away in search of the other ...

— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood

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