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

1 sense of major depressive episode

Sense 1
major depressive episode -- ((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)
       => depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression -- (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)