depressionism en · NOUN
Etymology
From depression + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A policy or advocacy of depression.
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.
1931, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, page 69:French surrealism, German depressionism, everything that is modern, or at least recent, is here.
1928, Harvard Advocate, volume 115, page 42:His depressionism was perhaps of late growth.
1938, Samuel Stephenson Smith, The craft of the critic, page 118: