melancholia

English

Etymology

From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊliə

Noun

melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
    Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness
  2. (pathology) Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.

Derived terms

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