antidepression

English

Alternative forms

• anti-depression

Etymology

anti- +‎ depression

Adjective

antidepression (comparative more antidepression, superlative most antidepression)

1. (economy) Opposing or countering economic depression.
   • 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:

     This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.

2. (pharmacology) Antidepressant.

Translations

opposing or countering economic depression

• Portuguese: antidepressão

antidepressant — see antidepressant