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Melancholia - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Melancholia : (noun)
1: extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and
irrational fears
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.,
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Melancholia : Melancholia: Old term for depression .
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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