melancholia
noun
1 melancholia
Extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears.
Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
mania,
rabies,
furor,
mental alienation,
aberration;
paranoia,
schizophrenia;
dementation†,
dementia,
demency†;
phrenitis†,
phrensy†,
frenzy,
raving,
incoherence,
wandering,
delirium,
calenture of the brain†;
delusion,
hallucination;
lycanthropy†;
brain storm†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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Roget 837:
dejection;
dejectedness
etc.
adj.;
depression,
prosternation†;
lowness of spirits,
depression of spirits;
weight on the spirits,
oppression on the spirits,
damp on the spirits;
low spirits,
bad spirits,
drooping spirits,
depressed spirits;
heart sinking;
heaviness of heart,
failure of heart.
heaviness
etc.
adj.;
infestivity†,
gloom;
weariness
etc.
841;
taedium vitae,
disgust of life;
mal du pays
etc.
(regret)
833;
anhedonia†.
melancholy;
sadness
etc.
adj.;
il penseroso [It],
melancholia,
dismals†,
blues,
lachrymals†,
mumps†,
dumps,
blue devils,
doldrums;
vapors,
megrims,
spleen,
horrors,
hypochondriasis [Med.],
pessimism;
la maladie sans maladie [Fr.];
despondency,
slough of Despond;
disconsolateness
etc.
adj.;
hope deferred,
blank despondency;
voiceless woe.
prostration of soul;
broken heart;
despair
etc.
859;
cave of despair,
cave of Trophonius demureness
etc.
adj.;
gravity,
solemnity;
long face,
grave face.
hypochondriac,
seek sorrow,
self-tormentor,
heautontimorumenos†,
malade imaginaire [Fr.],
medecin tant pis [Fr.];
croaker,
pessimist;
mope,
mopus†.
[Cause of dejection]
affliction
etc.
830;
sorry sight;
memento mori [Lat.];
damper,
wet blanket,
Job's comforter.
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Dutch: melancholie
Polish: melancholia
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