major depressive episode

Noun major depressive episode has 1 sense

• major depressive episode(n = noun.state) Array - (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; Array
is a kind of clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder
has particulars: involutional depression, unipolar depression