melancholia
a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
Psychiatry. endogenous depression.
Origin of melancholia
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Written during an introspective period shortly following the end of a nine-year relationship with his then–fiancée, these songs evoke a sense of somber melancholia that feels truly genuine and could only be written by someone going through it.
Cry Your Heart Out: The 11 Best Breakup Albums Ever Made | Peter Allen Clark | September 17, 2021 | Timemelancholia also produced a scandal at Cannes, but for another reason altogether.
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Raw Performance in ‘Nymphomaniac’ Is Not About the Sex | Jimmy So | March 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut she continues: “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?”
The Best Things to See at Frieze Art Fair NY 2013 | Isabel Wilkinson | May 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe distinction between melancholia and non-melancholia is a key part of your argument.
America’s Depression Diagnoses Epidemic and How to Fix It | Jesse Singal | March 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe also has a taste for dark fugues, nocturnes, and symphonies of melancholia.
3 Must Reads: ‘Kayak Morning,’ ‘Mr. g,’ and ‘Alex Gilvarry’ | Hillary Kelly, Mythili Rao, Jacob Silverman | February 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
No one who sees melancholia can deny that that role has arrived for Dunst.
Kirsten Dunst on 'Melancholia' and Lars von Trier | Richard Rushfield | November 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIn young people particularly, homesickness is a not uncommon cause of melancholia.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn melancholia, as a rule, sleep is very much disturbed, and at times patients do not sleep at all.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyNearly three-fourths of the patients who suffer from melancholia will recover from a first attack under proper care.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn the agitated form of melancholia, the patient is often quiet only when under the influence of a sleeping-potion.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThen it became gradually limited to those forms of insanity which differed from melancholia.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for melancholia
/ (ˌmɛlənˈkəʊlɪə) /
a former name for depression
Derived forms of melancholia
- melancholiac, adjective, noun
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