Melancholia
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊliə
Origin
From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholia, "blackness of the bile").
Full definition of melancholia
Noun
melancholia
(countable and uncountable; plural melancholias)- Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy