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Melancholia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears wordnet
  3. 3
    depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy countable, uncountable

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”). Doublet of melancholy.

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