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Repressed vs Depressive - What's the difference?

repressed | depressive |

As adjectives the difference between repressed and depressive

is that repressed is subjected to repression while depressive is .

As a verb repressed

is (repress) or repressed can be pressed again.

repressed

English

Etymology 1

repress + -ed

Verb

(head)
  • (repress)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subjected to repression.
  • (medical) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
    • Derived terms
    * repressed memory

    Etymology 2

    re- + pressed

    Verb

    (head)
  • Pressed again.

    • Anagrams

    *

    depressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing depression; dispiriting.
  • Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
  • Relative to, characteristic of depression.

    • Derived terms

    * depressively * depressiveness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person suffering from depression.
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