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melancholia

(eg. house, summary, human )

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  • melancholia  /ˌmɛ lən ˈkəʊ ljə/ ?  extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational…

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    • (n) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
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    1. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia.
    2. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia.
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  • melancholiac  someone subject to melancholia
  • melancholic  /ˌmɛ lən ˈkɑ lɪk/ ?  someone subject to melancholia
  • melancholy  /ˈmɛ lən ˌkɑ li/ ?  a feeling of thoughtful sadness
  • melancholy thistle  perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate…
  • melanchthon  German theologian and Luther's successor as leader of the Reformation in…
  • melanerpes  a genus of Picidae
  • melanerpes erythrocephalus  black-and-white North American woodpecker having a…
  • melanesia  the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
  • melanesian  /ˌmɛ lə ˈni ʒən/ ?  of or relating to Melanesia or its people or culture
  • melange  /ˈmɛ læŋ/ ?  a motley assortment of things
  • melanie klein  United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize…
  • melanin  /ˈmɛ lə nən/ ?  insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales…
  • melanise  convert into, or infiltrate with melanin
  • melanism  /ˈmɛ lə nɪ zəm/ ?  a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially…
  • melanitta  scoters
  • melanitta nigra  a variety of scoter
  • melanize  convert into, or infiltrate with melanin
  • melanoblast  an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte
  • melanocyte  a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the…
  • melanocyte-stimulating hormone  a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary…
  • melanoderma  abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin
  • melanogrammus  haddock
  • melanogrammus aeglefinus  important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related…
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