melancholia
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- (countable, uncountable) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
Synonyms
Translations
mélancolie
melancolía
malinconia
Melancholie
μελαγχολία
melancholie
melancolia zwaarmoedigheid
melankoli
maestitia
ملنخوليا droefgeestigheidEtymology
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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