melancholia
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (“blackness of the bile”)
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊliə
[edit] Noun
melancholia (countable and uncountable; plural melancholias)
- Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
