- Bad times - Economic downturn - Economic slump - Temporary economic decline - The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a
claim, or a demand. - The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession;
as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.
- Economic slump causes acute unhappiness - Moodiness - The act of depressing. - The state of being depressed; a sinking. - A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true
place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little
protuberances and depressions. - Humiliation; abasement, as of pride. - Dejection; despondency; lowness.