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Depressive vs Unipolar - What's the difference?

depressive | unipolar |

As adjectives the difference between depressive and unipolar

is that depressive is while unipolar is having a single pole.

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.
    • ----

    unipolar

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a single pole.
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, Dec. 31, Michael Kinsley, The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later, Time citation
    • , passage=All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar " world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.}}
  • (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * monopolar

    Derived terms

    * unipolar depression * unipolar encoding * unipolar motor * unipolar neuron

    Related terms

    * bipolar * multipolar