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Melancholia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

n. Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In pathology, a mental condition characterized by great depression combined with a sluggishness and apparent painfulness of mental action.

n. Same as melancholy, 2.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears

Word Usage

"At least since the twelfth century, the term melancholia has been used to identify depressive illness."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

depression

Cross Reference

involution melancholia melancholia attonita

Form

melancholiac

Synonym

Words with the same meaning