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dysthymia

noun/dɪsˈθaɪmiə/

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A chronic, low-grade depressive disorder in which depressed mood persists for most of the day for at least two years.

Her dysthymia had smouldered for a decade, never disabling but leaving her joyless and perpetually flat.

Topic: Mental health in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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