Another word for melancholia

melancholia Synonyms

melancholia

despondency, melancholy, despair; see depression 2, sadness.

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Horrible mental depression and melancholia are present, and there may be hallucinations of vision and hearing passing into violent delirium.
Throughout his life, but particularly in the later part of it, he was subject to prolonged fits of melancholia, during which he would not even speak.
He had been from his early youth subject to fits of melancholia, and during several short periods was actually insane.