The aphorism is, how to say it?, the champagne of melancholia; each short statement encapsulates years of disillusionment distilled in a moment of intoxication.
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Melancholia
Synonyms for "melancholia" (130 found)
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insanityinsensibilityinvolutional psychosislethargymaladjustmentmaniamanic-depressive psychosismelancholia attonitamelancholia religiosamelancholinessmental disordermental distressmental illnessmiserynervous breakdownnervous disorderneurosisobsessionparanoiapathological indecisiveness
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pensivenesspersonality disorderpreoccupationproblems in livingprostrationpsychalgiapsychomotor disturbancepsychosisreactionromantic melancholysadnessschizophreniasocial maladjustmentstuporstuporous melancholiasuicidal despairtictristfulnesstwitchingunresponsivenesswistfulnesswithdrawalwoewretchedness
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45 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سَوْدَاوِيَّة noun (Translations)
Bulgarian
1 entries- меланхолия noun (Translations)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 悲哀 noun (Translations)
- 憂鬱 /忧郁 noun (Translations)
Czech
1 entries- melancholie noun (Translations)
Danish
2 entries- melankoli noun (Translations)
- vemod noun (Translations)
Dutch
2 entries- melancholie noun (Translations)
- weemoed noun (Translations)
Finnish
3 entries- apeus noun (Translations)
- melankolia noun (Translations)
- surumielisyys noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- mélancolie noun (Translations)
German
3 entries- Melancholie noun (Translations)
- Schwermut noun (Translations)
- Wehmut noun (Translations)
Greek
1 entries- μελαγχολία noun (Translations)
Icelandic
1 entries- þunglyndi noun (Translations)
Indonesian
1 entries- melankolia noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- malinconia noun (Translations)
Japanese
2 entries- 憂鬱 noun (Translations)
- 鬱病 noun (Translations)
Korean
2 entries- 우울 noun (Translations)
- 침울 noun (Translations)
Latin
1 entries- melancholia noun (Translations)
Lithuanian
1 entries- melancholija noun (Translations)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- melankoli noun (Translations)
- svartsyn noun (Translations)
- tungsinn noun (Translations)
- vemod noun (Translations)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tunglynde noun (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- melancholia noun (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- melancolia noun (Translations)
Romanian
2 entries- melancolie noun (Translations)
- tristețe noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- меланхо́лия noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- melancolía noun (Translations)
Swedish
4 entries- melankoli noun (Translations)
- svårmod noun (Translations)
- tungsinne noun (Translations)
- vemod noun (Translations)
Turkish
2 entries- hüzün noun (Translations)
- melankoli noun (Translations)
Ukrainian
1 entries- меланхолія noun (Translations)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trầm cảm noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Schumann was diagnosed with psychotic melancholia.
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