major depressive episode vs depression

major depressive episode and depression both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
major depressive episode	Yes	No	No	No
depression	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, depression is a hypernym of major depressive episode; that is, depression is a word with a broader meaning than major depressive episode:

major depressive episode: (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction
depression: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

Other hypernyms of major depressive episode include clinical depression, depressive disorder.

major depressive episode (noun)	depression (noun)
(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction	pushing down
	sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
	a sunken or depressed geological formation
	angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
	a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
	a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
	an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
	a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
	a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

major depressive episode vs depression

major depressive episode and depression both are nouns.

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