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Webster 1913 Edition
Melancholia
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Melˊan-cho′li-a
,Noun.
[L. See
Melancholy
.] (Med.)
A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
Definition 2024
melancholia
melancholia
English
Noun
melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)
- Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy