Melancholia Definition

mĕlən-kōlē-ə
noun

Depression.

Webster's New World
Extreme, persistent sadness or hopelessness; depression. No longer in clinical use.
American Heritage Medicine
Depression of spirits; melancholy.
Webster's New World

Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.

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Noun

Singular:
melancholia
Plural:
melancholias

Origin of Melancholia

  • From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholia, “blackness of the bile").

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin melancholy melancholy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Melancholia Sentence Examples

  • Horrible mental depression and melancholia are present, and there may be hallucinations of vision and hearing passing into violent delirium.

  • In Vertigo he really gets beneath the skin of a deranged romantic obsessive who develops acute melancholia.

  • Throughout his life, but particularly in the later part of it, he was subject to prolonged fits of melancholia, during which he would not even speak.

  • Having suffered from melancholia, presumably brought on by an unmentionable disease, he was moved to a sanatorium in 1919.

  • Cracking Up bursts with joyously melodic verve, while Blue Bottle takes a turn through spare acoustic blues melancholia to artfully naïve effect.

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Words Starting With

MMEMEL

Words Ending With

AIALIA

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