Home › Words › D › depressionismdepressionismdepressionism means A policy or advocacy of depression.EtymologyFrom depression + -ism.nounA policy or advocacy of depression.e.g.“French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.” — 1928, Harvard Advocate, volume 115, page 42:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.depressionist 83% match — A proponent of depressionism. vs depressionism →depressiveness 71% match — The state of being depressive. vs depressionism →depressionary 69% match — Characteristic of a depression vs depressionism →depressoid 68% match — Resembling depression. vs depressionism →depressivity 67% match — The condition of being depressive vs depressionism →depressional 66% match — Of or pertaining to psychological depression. vs depressionism →depressedness 63% match — The state or quality of being depressed. vs depressionism →antidepression 63% match — Opposing or countering economic depression. vs depressionism →