depressions
- 1Plural of depression.
Geologists studied the shallow depressions left behind by melting glaciers.
Two major economic depressions struck the country within a single century.
Note
A plural that sorts the meanings of depression by whether they can be counted. Hollows in the ground, low-pressure weather systems and economic slumps all count freely: shallow depressions across a plain, two depressions in one century. The mental illness is usually uncountable, so in that sense the plural tends to mean separate episodes, bouts of low mood lasting weeks, rather than the condition itself.
depressions is a form of depression
depression, noun: A mental health condition, or a long period of it, in which a person feels deeply sad and hopeless and loses interest in life. Full entry
- Forms
- depressiondepressions plural
- Spelling
- depression → depressions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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