Crisis
Crisis noun - A time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action.
Depression and crisis are semantically related in economic crisis topic. In some cases you can use "Depression" instead a noun "Crisis".
Depression
Depression noun - A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.
Crisis and depression are semantically related in economic crisis topic. Sometimes you can use "Crisis" instead a noun "Depression", if it concerns topics such as economic decline.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| emotional | emotional crisis | emotional depression |
| long | long crisis | long depression |
| mild | mild crisis | mild depression |
| initial | initial crisis | initial depression |
| Other adjectives: deep, actual, severe, massive, extreme, serious, terrible, new, major, mental, growing, worst, subsequent, coming, previous, ensuing, economic, global, medical, worldwide, existential. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Not quite there yet, however, as it was established early on that the cause of it was some kind of mid-mid-life crisis or depression.
Source: The Unfettered -
One particularly bad crisis sends him into a deep depression, lashing out at several people around him.
Source: Crisis of Faith - The Great Depression and the global economic crisis aren't resolved by the USA or Nazi Germany.
Cite this Source
Depression and Crisis. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crisis/depression
Crisis & Depression. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crisis/depression>.
Depression or Crisis. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crisis/depression.
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