• glibg10b
    2•9 months ago

    melancholy — noun
    mel·​an·​choly (ˈme-lən-ˌkä-lē)
    [plural] melancholies

    1. a : depression of spirits : DEJECTION.

      great outbursts of creativity alternate with feelings of extreme melancholy

      — Brenda Lane Richardson

      Mitchell sounds utterly alone in her melancholy, turning the sadness into tender art.

      — Rolling Stone

      b : a pensive mood

      a fine romantic kind of a melancholy on the fading of the year

      — Richard Holmes

      One white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing melancholy.

      — Arthur Conan Doyle

    2. a : MELANCHOLIA sense 1

      b [archaic] : an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or depression

      c [archaic] : BLACK BILE

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      2•9 months ago

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