Crossword clues for melancholia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Modern Latin melancholia (see melancholy).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy 2 clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
WordNet
n. extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
Wikipedia
Black bile (, ), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, was a concept in ancient and pre-modern medicine. Melancholy was one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. In the 19th century, "melancholia" could be physical as well as mental, and melancholic conditions were classified as such by their common cause rather than by their properties.
Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood.
Melancholia may also refer to
- Depression (mood), a state of low mood also known as "melancholia"
- Major depressive disorder, a mood disorder historically called "melancholia"
- Melancholia (1989 film), a British-German film by Andi Engel, starring Jeroen Krabbé
- Melancholia (2008 film), a Philippine film by Lav Diaz
- Melancholia (2011 film), an English-language film by Lars von Trier
- "Melancholia", a musical composition by Duke Ellington that first appeared on the album The Duke Plays Ellington
- 5708 Melancholia, an asteroid
- Melencolia I, an engraving by Albrecht Dürer
- Melancholia I, a 1995 novel by Jon Fosse
- Melancholia II, a 1996 novella by Jon Fosse
- Involutional melancholia, a traditional name for a psychiatric disorder affecting mainly elderly or late middle-aged people that is no longer in use
Melancholia is a 2011 science-fiction drama- psychological thriller film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Cameron Spurr, and Kiefer Sutherland. The film's story revolves around two sisters, one of whom is preparing to marry, as a rogue planet is about to collide with Earth. Von Trier's initial inspiration for the film came from a depressive episode he suffered and the insight that depressed people have a tendency to remain peaceful during catastrophic events. The film is a Danish production by Zentropa, with international co-producers in Sweden, France, and Germany. Filming took place in Sweden.
Melancholia prominently features music from the prelude to Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1857–59). It is the second entry in von Trier's unofficially titled "Depression Trilogy", preceded by Antichrist and followed by Nymphomaniac.
Melancholia premiered 18 May 2011 at the 64th Cannes Film Festival–where it was critically lauded. Dunst received the festival's Best Actress Award for her performance, which was a common area of praise among critics. Although not without its detractors, many critics and film scholars have considered the film to be a masterpiece.
Melancholia is a 2008 Philippine film directed by Lav Diaz. It won the Horizons prize at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "melancholia".
Some forms of mania and melancholia do seem to improve, but whether that is because of hot baths and cascarilla or whether they have just run their course, I could not say.
Yet the Old Geister acted not, for his rancor was overcome by melancholia.
Every movement rotting with melancholia, Bannon wagged his arms at his sides in one bitter, languorous shrug.
Melancholia is a recursive, self-replicating structure: it continually generates the very alienation of which it then complains.
Behind her new Saints Louis and Paul there would be not only Science purifying Religion and being purified by it, but hypochondria, melancholia, cowardice, stupidity, cruelty, muckraking curiosity, knowledge without wisdom, and everything that the eternal soul in Nature loathes, instead of the virtues of which St Catherine was the figure head.
The symptoms were prostration, sleeplessness, exhaustion, over-fatigue from mental trouble, overstudy and anxiety, indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, headache, inability to concentrate the mind, general lassitude, melancholia, backache and pains from the top of my head to the sole of my feet.
This proposal made me roar with laughter, and certainly it was of a nature to excite the hilarity of a sufferer from confirmed melancholia, which I was far from being.
Mason's Melancholia so advanc'd that he is not fully aware of sitting wrapp'd in a Blanket arguing Religion with a Mohawk Warrior with whom he is scarcely upon intimate Terms, "that only the Mightiest God may command, deserve at least the one small, respectful Courtesy, of allowing their Line to cross, without a Mark, your Nations' own Great Path.
The ship was called the Melancholia of Departure, the kind of ironic name Ultras favoured for their craft.
Anxiety, hypochondria, displacency, melancholia, costive, delicate stomachs - the ills of the city merchant increased tenfold.
I suddenly remembered the extraordinary changes the human face can undergo in circular insanity, when it changes from melancholia to elation.
I was learned then in science and philosophy, in the history of religions, in inductive and deductive logic, in liver mantic, in the shape and weight of skulls, in pharmacopeia and metallurgy, in all the useless branches of learning which gives you indigestion and melancholia before your time.
Also the libations, as, a decoction of nightshade for Melancholia, or of Indian hemp for Uranus.
He informs me that they may constantly be seen in energetic action in cases of melancholia, and especially of hypochondria.
At the time of our own Civil War the chief carrier was that sufferer from involutional melancholia, that tormented man from whom knives once had to be hidden, Abraham Lincoln.