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melancholia

noun

Etymology

From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Doublet of melancholy.

  1. derived from melancholia

Definitions

  1. Deep sadness or gloom

    Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

  2. depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

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Derived

melancholiac

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