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melancholia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | depression |
| Derivation | melancholic |
Examples of melancholia
melancholia
The moon was also linked to diseases, fever, melancholia and, of course, lunacy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Melancholia is about inevitability of death which is a quite interesting topic.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's Neil Simon, whose humor is often laced with a bitter kind of melancholia.
From the denverpost.com
Melancholia is, if little else, an accurate depiction of that state of mind.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Winston Churchill, like Samuel Johnson, cast his melancholia as a black dog.
From the guardian.co.uk
I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Melancholia itself would have been talking point enough without Von Trier's prattling.
From the guardian.co.uk
There were long marches and a waltz that never shakes off the melancholia.
From the timesunion.com
I cannot remember seeing an Antony so deep in melancholia or self-disgust.
From the metro.co.uk
- Extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
- (melancholic) someone subject to melancholia
- Black bile (Greek: u00B5u03ADu03BBu03B1u03B9u03BDu03B1 u03C7u03BFu03BBu03AE, melaina chole), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, was a concept in ancient and pre-modern medicine. Melancholy was one of the four temperaments matching the four humours...
- Melancholia is an upcoming disaster drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film deals with a variety of people trying to cope with the death of the planet as a large foreign body threatens a deadly collision. Further plot details are being kept extremely quiet. ...
- (Melancholic (ballet)) The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith (the latter's eponymous 1940 music for string orchestra and piano) for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate ...
- (Melancholic) black bile - anxious, rigid, pessimistic, unsociable, etc
- (melancholic) (mel an KAW-lik) adj. Sad. [black bile]
- We now call this depression. For Freud it shares with mourning a gradual withdrawing of libido from an object known to be lost or dead--but it is different in that the unconscious hatred felt toward the object with which the ego narcissistically identifies is turned against the ego. ...
- Originally first described by the Greeks and Romans, and characterised by a deep and persistent sadness and now corresponds closely to depression.
