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anti-depression

anti-depression is the alternative form of antidepression.

Meaning of antidepression

Adjective

antidepression (comparative more antidepression, superlative most antidepression)

  1. (economy) Opposing or countering economic depression.
    • This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of...2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182
  2. Antidepressant.

Forms of anti-depression

comparativemore anti-depression
superlativemost anti-depression

Origin of anti-depression

From anti- + depression.

Questions about anti-depression

What is anti-depression the alternative form of?
Anti-depression is the alternative form of antidepression.

Words near anti-depression in the dictionary

  1. anti-degradable
  2. anti-democracy
  3. anti-democratic
  4. anti-depressant
  5. anti-depressants
  6. anti-depression
  7. anti-detriment
  8. anti-devolutionist
  9. anti-devolutionists
  10. anti-diagonal
  11. anti-diagonals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-depression (page history and authors); antidepression (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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