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Jan 11, 2012 This week's theme Words coined using combining forms This week's words duopsony hypochondriac dysthymia autologous gerontology Make a gift that keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD It takes less than a minute. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg dysthymia PRONUNCIATION: (dis-THY-mee-uh) MEANING: noun: A mild depression. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek dys- (bad) + -thymia (mental disorder), from thymos (mind, soul). Earliest documented use: 1842. USAGE: "It was as if my mood had been goaded away from situational discontentedness into a dysthymia that seemed now to be heading into full-fledged depression." Meghan Daum; Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House; Knopf; 2011. Explore "dysthymia" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. -Harry Crews, novelist and playwright (b. 1935)

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