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Melancholia synonyms

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despondency
Depression of spirits from loss of hope, confidence, or courage; dejection.
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  1. Depression of spirits from loss of hope, confidence, or courage; dejection.
  2. A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
melancholy
(Obs.) Black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression
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  1. (Obs.) Black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression
  2. The condition of having, or the disorder supposed to result from having, too much black bile
  3. Sad, sober musing; pensiveness
despair
One despaired of or causing despair:
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  1. One despaired of or causing despair:
  2. A person or thing causing despair
  3. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Find another word for melancholia. In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for melancholia, like: despondency, melancholy, despair, depression, sadness, melancholiness and tristfulness.

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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.

  • melancholia sung with passion and abandon, he really connected with the crowd tonight.

  • In Vertigo he really gets beneath the skin of a deranged romantic obsessive who develops acute melancholia.

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