melancholia

• It was, I supposed, picturesque enough, given the limited palette of drab colours, but as a piece of Impressionist art it served to evoke only the disagreeable feelings of restlessness, melancholia, and a faint thread of menace. —  The Moor - Laurie R King - Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes 04
• Bruno always seemed to understand when I had an attack of melancholia, and he would watch my every movement. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
• He lost a considerable proportion of his melancholia, and raved at times like a common man. —  Certain Personal Matters
• Being threatened with acute melancholia, a specialist had advised a change of air; and Lady Meason had begun once more to blossom like a rose--of the fully developed, cabbage order--in the joy of being "one of the most notable, popular and successful hostesses of the season at Mentone." —  The Guests Of Hercules
• But when he turned the microscope on his own states of feeling, and on the aims of his life, the result was melancholia--almost disease of mind. —  Cobwebs of Thought

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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