depressionism

English

Etymology

From depression +‎ -ism.

Noun

depressionism (uncountable)

1. A policy or advocacy of depression.
   • 1928, Harvard Advocate, volume 115, page 42:

     French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.

   • 1931, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, page 69:

     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.

   • 1938, Samuel Stephenson Smith, The craft of the critic, page 118:

     His depressionism was perhaps of late growth.

Related terms

• depressionist