noun
definition
Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
synonyms
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Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.
Examples of melancholia in a Sentence
Horrible mental depression and melancholia are present, and there may be hallucinations of vision and hearing passing into violent delirium.
In Vertigo he really gets beneath the skin of a deranged romantic obsessive who develops acute melancholia.
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.
Having suffered from melancholia, presumably brought on by an unmentionable disease, he was moved to a sanatorium in 1919.
Cracking Up bursts with joyously melodic verve, while Blue Bottle takes a turn through spare acoustic blues melancholia to artfully naïve effect.
He had been from his early youth subject to fits of melancholia, and during several short periods was actually insane.