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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abstraction, abulia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, alienation, anguish, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, brain disease, broken heart, catatonic stupor, compulsion, crack-up, crushing, cyclothymia, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, detachment, elation, emotional disorder, emotional instability, emotionalism, euphoria, extremity, flatuous melancholia, folie du doute, functional nervous disorder, gentle melancholy, grief, heartache, heavy heart, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, infelicity, insanity, insensibility, involutional psychosis, lethargy, maladjustment, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia attonita, melancholia religiosa, melancholiness, melancholy, mental disorder, mental distress, mental illness, misery, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, obsession, paranoia, pathological indecisiveness, pensiveness, personality disorder, preoccupation, problems in living, prostration, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychosis, reaction, romantic melancholy, sadness, schizophrenia, social maladjustment, stupor, stuporous melancholia, suicidal despair, tic, tristfulness, twitching, unresponsiveness, wistfulness, withdrawal, woe, wretchedness

Dictionary Results for melancholia:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

melancholia
    n 1: extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and
         irrational fears

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

MELANCHOLIA, med. jur. A name given by the ancients to a species of partial 
intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of monomania. 
(q.v.) It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by 
dejection of mind and gloomy ideas. Vide Mania.,

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