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憂鬱症 (ゆううつしょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

憂ゆう鬱うつ症しょう

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Meanings

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noun

melancholia; severe depression

Medical or clinical term for a state of deep, persistent depression; often used in psychiatric contexts.

彼かれは憂ゆう鬱うつ症しょうと診しん断だんされ、長ちょう期きの治ち療りょうが必ひつ要ようだった。
He was diagnosed with melancholia and required long-term treatment.
憂ゆう

Written forms

憂ゆう鬱うつ症しょう
Standard kanji spelling for the medical term.
憂ゆう欝うつ症しょう
Variant with 欝, a simplified form of 鬱; less common.

Kanji

憂melancholy, grieve, lament
鬱gloom, depression, melancholy

鬱うつ

症しょう

の

症しょう

状じょう

に

は

、

強つよ

い

無む

気き

力りょく

感かん

や

不ふ

眠みん

が

含ふく

ま

れる

。

Symptoms of severe depression include intense lethargy and insomnia.

症symptoms, illness

欝gloom, depression, melancholy

Similar words

鬱うつ病びょう
鬱病 is the more common modern term for clinical depression, while 憂鬱症 is a slightly older or more literary medical term.
憂ゆう鬱うつ
憂鬱 is a general noun/adjective for gloom or melancholy, whereas 憂鬱症 specifically refers to the medical condition.

Etymology

Compound of 憂鬱 (melancholy, gloom) and 症 (symptom, illness). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term follows the pattern of medical condition names.