MAJOR DEPRESSIVE EPISODE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (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
   Hypernyms(s) major depressive episode is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • depressive disorder (what does depressive disorder mean?)
   • clinical depression (what does clinical depression mean?)
   • depression (what does depression mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • involutional depression (what does involutional depression mean?)
   • unipolar depression (what does unipolar depression mean?)