Sleeping vs Depression - What's the difference?
sleeping | depression |
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Asleep.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
the state or act of being asleep.
* 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
(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.
As nouns the difference between sleeping and depression
is that sleeping is the state or act of being asleep while depression is depression (area that is lower than its surroundings).As a verb sleeping
is .As an adjective sleeping
is asleep.sleeping
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
Adjective
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Derived terms
* sleeping bag * Sleeping Beauty * sleeping car * sleeping hours * sleeping pill * sleeping roomNoun
- there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings .
