undepression

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noun

Absence or reversal of a depressed state

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounundepression (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAbsence or reversal of a depressed state

    The volatile acid was identified as isovaleric acid by comparison of its infrared spectrum with that of an authentic sample and by undepression of mixed melting points of their p-bromophenacylester.

    1961, Journal of antibiotics, volume 14
  2. uncountablepsychologicalThe lack or absence of depression; antidepression

    Take this matter of Depression; it is caused by Being Miserable, which is in turn caused by Being Fed-up. Could we but unfeed ourselves, undepression would naturally follow.

    1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 181
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    If we are depressed, for example, it does no good to try to be "undepressed" or to somehow change ourselves. It does do good, however, to cultivate the soil of the soul with the ingredients of grace, truth, and time, and then we will gradually be transformed to greater stages of "undepression," or joy.

    1990, Henry Cloud, When your world makes no sense

Origin

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