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depressionism

noun

Etymology

From depression + -ism.

  1. derived from dēpressiō
  2. derived from depression
  3. inherited from depression
  4. suffixed as depressionism — “depression + ism”

Definitions

  1. A policy or advocacy of depression.

    • French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.
    • The source of the defeatism, pessimism, depressionism that pervades so much contemporary literature is only partly in the reality it depicts; it is also to be found in the imagination by the light of which we interpret reality.
    • His depressionism was perhaps of late growth.

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