Meanings
- uncountableA policy or advocacy of depression.
His depressionism was perhaps of late growth.
1938, Samuel Stephenson Smith, The craft of the critic, page 1182 more examples
French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.
1928, Harvard Advocate, volume 115, page 42The source of the defeatism, pessimism, depressionism that pervades so much contemporary literature is only partly in the reality it depicts; it is also to be found in the imagination by the light of which we interpret reality.
1931, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, page 69
Origin
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