Melancholia

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Melancholia \Mel`an*cho"li*a\, n. [L. See {Melancholy}.] (Med.)
     A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme
     depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and
     brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  melancholia
       n : extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and
           irrational fears

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "melancholia":
     abstraction, abulia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind,
     alienation, anguish, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state,
     apathy, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, brain disease,
     broken heart, catatonic stupor, compulsion, crack-up, crushing,
     cyclothymia, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation,
     despair, detachment, elation, emotional disorder,
     emotional instability, emotionalism, euphoria, extremity,
     flatuous melancholia, folie du doute, functional nervous disorder,
     gentle melancholy, grief, heartache, heavy heart, hypochondria,
     hysteria, hysterics, indifference, infelicity, insanity,
     insensibility, involutional psychosis, lethargy, maladjustment,
     mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia attonita,
     melancholia religiosa, melancholiness, melancholy, mental disorder,
     mental distress, mental illness, misery, nervous breakdown,
     nervous disorder, neurosis, obsession, paranoia,
     pathological indecisiveness, pensiveness, personality disorder,
     preoccupation, problems in living, prostration, psychalgia,
     psychomotor disturbance, psychosis, reaction, romantic melancholy,
     sadness, schizophrenia, social maladjustment, stupor,
     stuporous melancholia, suicidal despair, tic, tristfulness,
     twitching, unresponsiveness, wistfulness, withdrawal, woe,
     wretchedness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MELANCHOLIA, med. jur. A name given by the ancients to a species of partial 
  intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of monomania. 
  (q.v.) It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by 
  dejection of mind and gloomy ideas. Vide Mania.,