melancholia
IPA: mˈɛɫʌnkɑɫjʌ
noun
- Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
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Examples of "melancholia" in Sentences
- Bring back the massively morbid melancholia.
- It has articles on melancholia as well as bile.
- Sartre originally titled the novel Melancholia.
- Anyway, melancholia is part of the Christmas spirit.
- These experiences speak against their use in melancholia.
- Queen Maria suffered from religious mania and melancholia.
- A specific laboratory test for the diagnosis of melancholia.
- The countess consults the hermit about a cure for her melancholia.
- Queen Maria is said to have suffered from religious mania and melancholia.
- Intervals of dogged literary effort alternated with lapses into melancholia.
- This liquor would supposedly induce melancholia in the drinker, hence the name.
- Since the seventeenth century, the term melancholia has been used to in a stricter, modern meaning.
- At least since the twelfth century, the term melancholia has been used to identify depressive illness.
- They're not for our benefit after all: the pleasure we get from them, the sweeter form of melancholia, is a bonus.
- Louis Bayard on Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson: Wilson's idea of melancholia is thoroughly Romantic and more than a little romantic.
- Freud famously argues apropos of the processes of identification involved in melancholia that 'the shadow of the object falls on the ego.'
- Whereas in melancholia the ego is vampirized by the introjected object, in mania the libido turns with ravenous hunger to the external world of objects; whatever appears before the manic's rapidly advancing probe is swallowed.
- That phrase is so closely associated with the legendary prime minister that one assumes he coined it, but he probably got the term from his childhood nanny, and it shows up as a euphemism for melancholia all the way back to the writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson .
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