undepressionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

undepression ‎(uncountable)

1. Absence or reversal of a depressed state
   • 1961, Journal of antibiotics - Volume 14:

     The volatile acid was identified as isovaleric acid by comparison of its infrared spectrum with that of an authentic sample and by undepression of mixed melting points of their p-bromophenacylester.

2. (psychological) The lack or absence of depression; antidepression
   • 1931, Mark Lemon, ‎Henry Mayhew, ‎Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 181:

     Take this matter of Depression; it is caused by Being Miserable, which is in turn caused by Being Fed-up. Could we but unfeed ourselves, undepression would naturally follow.

   • 1990, Henry Cloud, When your world makes no sense:

     If we are depressed, for example, it does no good to try to be "undepressed" or to somehow change ourselves. It does do good, however, to cultivate the soil of the soul with the ingredients of grace, truth, and time, and then we will gradually be transformed to greater stages of "undepression," or joy.