| melancholiac |
melancholic: someone subject to melancholia
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| melancholia |
a word used through the years to refer to what is now called depression. In the humoral theory of the ancient Greeks it was the temperament caused by an excess of black bile. In modern psychiatric terminology melancholia is used to refer to especially severe forms of major depressive disorder.
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