See Also: Disorder, seasonal affective (SAD)(health)
seasonal affective disorder(dictionary)
seasonal affective disorder (SAD)(encyclopedia)
seasonal affective disorder(medicine)
Affective disorder, seasonal (SAD)(health)
affective disorder(encyclopedia)
affective personality disorder(medicine)
Bipolar affective disorder(health)
seasonal(dictionary)
seasonal(dictionary)

abstraction (oh) and seasonal affective disorder (oh)


abstraction (oh)



[C] a General idea about a type of situation, thing, or person rather than a specific example from real life
::He's always talking in abstractions.
[U] when you do not notice what is happening around you because you are thinking carefully about something else
::She rocked the baby gently, gazing in abstraction at the flickering fire.
[U] the use of shapes and patterns that do not look like real things

seasonal affective disorder (oh)



n [U]
an illness that makes people feel sad and tired in winter, because there is not enough light from the sun
-synonym SAD SAD