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What does melancholia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word melancholia? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
  2. (pathology) Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.
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I bolted over to Boite Noire to rent it, thinking the plot sounded like a sweet bit of melancholia.
Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
Instinctive, impulsive melodies meet melancholia and melodrama in gay tales of arch commentary and frank observation.
His vision is informed by the hope and joy, as well as the melancholia and uncertainty, of that period of incipience.
Four Icelandic artists create work exploring aspects of melancholia through animation, drawing, painting, sculpture and video.
The marriage was not a success, and in his last years, he suffered from a pathological masochistic melancholia.

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