Associations to the word «Dysthymia»

Wiktionary

DYSTHYMIA, noun. A tendency to be depressed, without hope.
DYSTHYMIA, noun. (psychiatry) A form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least 2 years.

Dictionary definition

DYSTHYMIA, noun. Mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats