<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of depressing</li><li>the state of being depressed</li><li>a depressed or sunken place or part; an area lower than the surrounding surface</li><li>sadness; gloom; dejection</li><li>Synonyms: despondency, discouragement</li><li>Psychiatry: a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason</li><li>dullness or inactivity, as of trade</li><li>Economics: a period during which business, employment, and stock-market values decline severely or remain at a very low level of activity</li><li>the Depression; Great Depression</li><li>Pathology: a low state of vital powers or functional activity</li><li>Astronomy: the angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon; negative altitude</li><li>Surveying: angle of depression (definition)</li><li>Physical Geography: an area completely or mostly surrounded by higher land, ordinarily having interior drainage and not conforming to the valley of a single stream</li><li>Meteorology: an area of low atmospheric pressure</li></ul>