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melancholia
noun as in depression
Strong matches
- abasement
- abjection
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
noun as in seasonal affective disorder
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in wretchedness
Example Sentences
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.
Melancholia also produced a scandal at Cannes, but for another reason altogether.
But she continues: “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?”
The distinction between melancholia and non-melancholia is a key part of your argument.
He also has a taste for dark fugues, nocturnes, and symphonies of melancholia.
No one who sees Melancholia can deny that that role has arrived for Dunst.
In young people particularly, homesickness is a not uncommon cause of melancholia.
In melancholia, as a rule, sleep is very much disturbed, and at times patients do not sleep at all.
Nearly three-fourths of the patients who suffer from melancholia will recover from a first attack under proper care.
In the agitated form of melancholia, the patient is often quiet only when under the influence of a sleeping-potion.
Then it became gradually limited to those forms of insanity which differed from melancholia.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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