Retarded depression is a category of depression characterised by slow thinking and behaviour. It is contrasted with agitated depression (characterised by heightened psychomotor activity). Though some clinicians continue to use the term, as a diagnostic category of depression it has largely been displaced by those in the American Psychiatric Associ...
major depressive disorder with psychomotor retardation.
[n] - a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action
noun a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action