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endogenous depression

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of endogenous depression1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

At two I began a lifetime of chronic asthma, full blown obsessive compulsive disorder starting around puberty, years of scrupulous hyper-religiosity and hints of endogenous depression.

By 1980 the term melancholia had gone out of style and had been replaced by endogenous depression.

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