"melancholia" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-melancholia.oga 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, 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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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)
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      "word": "鬱病"
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      "code": "uk",
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