"melancholia" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: melancholias [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊliə Etymology: From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”), from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of melancholy. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|LL.|melancholia}} Late Latin melancholia, {{uder|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{doublet|en|melancholy}} Doublet of melancholy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)
  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness
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  2. (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: melancholiac Related terms: melancholy, melancholic Translations (Translations): меланхолия (melanholija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 憂鬱 (Chinese Mandarin), 忧郁 (yōuyù) (Chinese Mandarin), 悲哀 (bēi'āi) (Chinese Mandarin), melancholie [feminine] (Czech), melankoli [common-gender] (Danish), vemod [neuter] (Danish), melancholie [feminine] (Dutch), weemoed [masculine] (Dutch), melankolia (Finnish), apeus (Finnish), surumielisyys (Finnish), mélancolie [feminine] (French), Melancholie [feminine] (German), Schwermut [feminine] (German), Wehmut [feminine] (German), μελαγχολία (melancholía) [feminine] (Greek), þunglyndi [neuter] (Icelandic), malinconia [feminine] (Italian), 憂鬱 (yūutsu) (Japanese), 鬱病 (utsubyō) (Japanese), 우울 (uul) (Korean), 침울 (chimul) (Korean), melancholia [feminine] (Latin), melancholija [feminine] (Lithuanian), melankoli [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tungsinn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), svartsyn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), vemod [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), tunglynde [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), melancholia [feminine] (Polish), melancolia [feminine] (Portuguese), melancolie [feminine] (Romanian), tristețe [feminine] (Romanian), меланхо́лия (melanxólija) [feminine] (Russian), melancolía [feminine] (Spanish), melankoli [common-gender] (Swedish), svårmod [neuter] (Swedish), vemod [neuter] (Swedish), tungsinne [neuter] (Swedish), melankoli (Turkish), hüzün (Turkish), меланхолія (melanxolija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), trầm cảm (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 54 46

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      "word": "憂鬱"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "melankolia"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "apeus"
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      "word": "surumielisyys"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "mélancolie"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Melancholie"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "el",
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    },
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      "code": "is",
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "þunglyndi"
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      "code": "it",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "malinconia"
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    {
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "憂鬱"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "utsubyō",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "鬱病"
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      "roman": "uul",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "우울"
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      "roman": "chimul",
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      "word": "침울"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "melancholia"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "melancolia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "melancolie"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "меланхо́лия"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "melancolía"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "melankoli"
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        "neuter"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "Translations",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "melankoli"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hüzün"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "melanxolija",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "меланхолія"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "trầm cảm"
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    "en:melancholia"
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}

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