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    melancholy — noun
    mel·​an·​choly (ˈme-lən-ˌkä-lē)
    [plural] melancholies

    1. a : depression of spirits : DEJECTION.

      great outbursts of creativity alternate with feelings of extreme melancholy

      Brenda Lane Richardson

      Mitchell sounds utterly alone in her melancholy, turning the sadness into tender art.

      Rolling Stone

      b : a pensive mood

      a fine romantic kind of a melancholy on the fading of the year

      Richard Holmes

      One white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing melancholy.

      Arthur Conan Doyle

    2. a : MELANCHOLIA sense 1

      b [archaic] : an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or depression

      c [archaic] : BLACK BILE