Depression vs Lying - What's the difference?
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(lb) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
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(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
(lb) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
(lb) A period of major economic contraction.
Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
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A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
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An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
* Jeremy Taylor
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
* Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
As nouns the difference between depression and lying
is that depression is depression (area that is lower than its surroundings) while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.As a verb lying is
.depression
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See also
* downturn * (National Bureau of Economic Research) ----lying
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(wikipedia lying)Verb
(head)Sense and SensibilityThe Free Library , Chapter 19:
- Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..
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(en noun)- But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?