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melancholia
[ mel-uhn-koh-lee-uh, -kohl-yuh ]
noun
- a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
- Psychiatry. endogenous depression.
melancholia
/ ˌmɛlənˈkəʊlɪə /
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Derived Forms
- ˌmelanˈcholiˌac, adjectivenoun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of melancholia1
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Example Sentences
Written during an introspective period shortly following the end of a nine-year relationship with his then–fiancée, these songs evoke a sense of somber melancholia that feels truly genuine and could only be written by someone going through it.
Melancholia also produced a scandal at Cannes, but for another reason altogether.
But she continues: “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?”
The distinction between melancholia and non-melancholia is a key part of your argument.
He also has a taste for dark fugues, nocturnes, and symphonies of melancholia.
No one who sees Melancholia can deny that that role has arrived for Dunst.
In young people particularly, homesickness is a not uncommon cause of melancholia.
In melancholia, as a rule, sleep is very much disturbed, and at times patients do not sleep at all.
Nearly three-fourths of the patients who suffer from melancholia will recover from a first attack under proper care.
In the agitated form of melancholia, the patient is often quiet only when under the influence of a sleeping-potion.
Then it became gradually limited to those forms of insanity which differed from melancholia.
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