melancholia

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

melancholy

depression

spleen

gloom

dejection

sadness

hypochondria

indolence

lifelessness

megrim

megrims

sale

sombreness

sorrow

subtraction

weakness

weariness

depair

apathy

fatigue

grief

black bile

alarm

lypemania

consternation

deduction

demand

despondency

dismay

exhaustion

Vertalings

mélancolie

melancolía

malinconia

Melancholie

μελαγχολία

melancholie

melancolia

zwaarmoedigheid

abattement

melankoli

maestitia

ملنخوليا

droefgeestigheid

Wehmut

Etimologie (Engels)

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.