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Depressiveness

Depressive \De*press"ive\, a. Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.

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depressiveness

n. The state of being depressive.

Usage examples of "depressiveness".

The depressiveness of the place is but a faint imprint of what a pitiful pit it must have been in the late 1800s, when Joseph Carey Merrick - mistakenly called John Merrick by the showman who "owned" him last - was granted shelter in two of the hospital's first-floor back rooms.