melancholia

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Definition of melancholia

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
(countable, uncountable)depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

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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.

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