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

1 sense of dysthymia

Sense 1
dysthymia, dysthymic depression -- (mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia")
       => depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression -- (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)