melancholia
Deep sadness or gloomDeep sadness or gloom; melancholy
» Schumann was diagnosed with psychotic melancholia.
Bei Schumann wurde psychotische Melancholie diagnostiziert.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
Melancholie, Schwermut, Wehmut
меланхо́лияmelanxólija
меланхоліяmelanxolija
(countable, uncountable)Depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
Examples
1 sentencesSchumann was diagnosed with psychotic melancholia.
deBei Schumann wurde psychotische Melancholie diagnostiziert. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical terFrom 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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Forms
plural: melancholias| Singular | melancholia |
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Synonyms
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