Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun depressive_disorder

1 sense of depressive disorder

Sense 1
depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression -- (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)
       => affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance -- (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)