Cyclothymia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression. countable, uncountable

    "A study using the BAR assessment tool criteria found that cyclothymia had the best overall clinical utility for case finding and screening when focusing on depressed youths with an early transition to bipolar."

  2. 2
    a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time wordnet

Synonyms

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complexioncyclic disordercyclothymic disorderextroversionhumorintroversion

Example

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"A study using the BAR assessment tool criteria found that cyclothymia had the best overall clinical utility for case finding and screening when focusing on depressed youths with an early transition to bipolar."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) + θυμός (thumós, “temper, disposition”) + -ia.

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