endogenous depression
nounPsychiatry.
a severe form of depression usually characterized by insomnia, weight loss, and inability to experience pleasure, thought to be of internal origin and not influenced by external events.
Origin of endogenous depression
1First recorded in 1960–65
- Also called melancholia.
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