Synonyms for melancholia
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : mel-uh n-koh-lee-uh, -kohl-yuh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌmɛl ənˈkoʊ li ə, -ˈkoʊl yə |
Top 10 synonyms for melancholia Other synonyms for the word melancholia
- abjectness
- blue funk
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- desperation
- despondency
- discomfort
- disconsolation
- discontent
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- grief
- heaviness of heart
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- mild depression
- misery
- mortification
- pain
- qualm
- sad
- sadness
- seasonal depression
- sorrow
- suffering
- the blues
- torment
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woe
- woefulness
- worry
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
- 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
Antonyms for melancholia
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