melancholies

noun

a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

adjective

grave or even gloomy in character

characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

Roots

melasmelan- · Greek · black cholechol- · Greek · bile ia-ies · Greek · condition (plural)

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