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

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He was diagnosed with melancholia and required long-term treatment.

憂ゆう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.

Kanji

憂melancholy, grieve, lament
鬱gloom, depression, melancholy
症symptoms, illness
欝gloom, depression, melancholy

Related 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.

Built from

憂ゆう鬱うつ+症しょう

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.

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.