any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant (noun.state)
hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF depressive disorder relation)
(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and more..(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction(noun.state)