melancholy
Noun
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is a type of: sadness, unhappiness - emotions experienced when not in a state of well-beingsubtypes:
- gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
- heavyheartedness - a feeling of dispirited melancholy
- brooding, pensiveness - persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- weltschmerz, world-weariness - sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
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is a type of: depression - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
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is a type of: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance - the liquid parts of the bodysame as: black bile
Adjective
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similar to: sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappinesssame as: melancholic
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