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Synonyms for melancholia


Grammar : Noun
Spell : mel-uh n-koh-lee-uh, -kohl-yuh
Phonetic Transcription : ˌmɛl ənˈkoʊ li ə, -ˈkoʊl yə

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Définition of melancholia

Origin :
  • 1690s, from Modern Latin melancholia (see melancholy).
  • As in seasonal affective disorder : noun depression in a season, mainly winter
  • As in wretchedness : noun misery
  • As in depression : noun low spirits; despair
Example sentences :
  • The truth was that she had given signs of melancholia ever since the death of Antonin.
  • Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
  • Melancholia is where is offered a good chance for Christian Science.
  • Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
  • What if the gentleman in a sudden fit of melancholia had thrown himself into the lake?
  • Extract from : « Jerry » by Jean Webster
  • Is not this a manifest case of insanity, in the form known as melancholia?
  • Extract from : « Pages From an Old Volume of Life » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You're going to get out of this wretched, unkempt state of melancholia at once.
  • Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
  • So she drifts into neurasthenia and has fits of crying and periods of melancholia.
  • Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague
  • Every type of madness may there be studied, from dementia and melancholia to mania.
  • Extract from : « Old and New Paris, v. 2 » by Henry Sutherland Edwards
  • Nearly all these cases were instances, not of mania but of melancholia.
  • Extract from : « A System of Midwifery » by Edward Rigby
  • Melancholia with a constant fear of impending danger is often present.
  • Extract from : « Mind and Body » by William Walker Atkinson
  • If he could only say and do the right thing to kill that melancholia.
  • Extract from : « The U.P. Trail » by Zane Grey

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