Definitions for melancholia

melancholia mel·an·cho·li·a

Spelling: [mel-uh n-koh-lee-uh, -kohl-y Melancholia is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 833 anagrams from letters in melancholia (aacehillmno).

Definitions for melancholia

noun

  1. a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
  2. Psychiatry. endogenous depression.

Origin of melancholia

From Late Latin, dating back to 1685-95; See origin at melancholy

Examples for melancholia

Is not this a manifest case of insanity, in the form known as melancholia?

You're going to get out of this wretched, unkempt state of melancholia at once.

melancholia is where is offered a good chance for Christian Science.

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.

The truth was that she had given signs of melancholia ever since the death of Antonin.

But she continues: “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?”

What if the gentleman in a sudden fit of melancholia had thrown himself into the lake?

Despite this backdrop, Kirsten Dunst radiates excitement when she comes to talk about melancholia.

melancholia also produced a scandal at Cannes, but for another reason altogether.

Word Value for melancholia
Scrable

18

Words with friends

22

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