depressionism
nounEtymology From depression + -ism.
1
A policy or advocacy of depression.
- French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.1928, Harvard Advocate, volume 115, page 42:
- The source of the defeatism, pessimism, depressionism that pervades so much contemporary literature is only partly in the reality it depicts; it is also to be found in the imagination by the light of which we interpret reality.1931, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, page 69:
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- His depressionism was perhaps of late growth.1938, Samuel Stephenson Smith, The craft of the critic, page 118:
- Related terms
- depressionist