Word For Depression Resulting From Awe
Is there a native English word (or borrowed word, or word in another language for that matter) meaning:
A depression resulting from the insight that I will not understand many things.
Example Usage awe-based-depression:
"Upon reading through his classmate's mathematical proof, the profound beauty of the thought process revealed left him with a sense of awe-based-depression."
"After a year of study in medicine she felt a sense of awe-based-depression at the unfathomable complexity of the biochemistry of life."
There is "deflation"
OED
To deflate:
2. a. intransitive. To ‘climb down’; to lose spirit, confidence, etc.
1933 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 772 ‘Mr. Garnett’ said the village postman importantly ‘is gone to Spain.’ ‘Mr. Garnett is unfortunate’ I replied..and the postman deflated.
1960 L. Wright Clean & Decent 264 We may or may not deflate when a statistician tells us that of our neighbours on a London bus today, one in five never takes a bath.
And from this there is the noun "deflation" in the senses "of the loss of spirit, confidence, etc.**
1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 157 Maybe his mental trouble is not hopeless. He may be cured by his deflation.
1958 G. J. Warnock Eng. Philos. since 1900 xiii. 173 The contemporary philosopher's eye is characteristically cold and his pen, perhaps, apt to be employed as an instrument of deflation.
And thus
"Upon reading through his classmate's mathematical proof, the profound beauty of the thought process revealed left him with a sense of deflation."