<medicine> A kind of mental unsoundness characterised by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

Origin: L. See Melancholy.

(01 Mar 1998)

melampyrite, melan-, melanaemia, melanagogue < Prev | Next > melancholic, melancholy, melanedema

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