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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mood disorder characterized by mild depression.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Mental depression.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A tendency to be depressed, without hope.
  2. n. psychiatry One form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least 2 years.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mild chronic depression

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek δυσθυμία (dysthymia, "melancholy"), from δυσ- (dys-, "bad") + θυμός (thymos, "spirit, courage"). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin dysthȳmia, from Greek dusthūmiā, despondency : dus-, dys- + -thūmiā, -thymia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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