m 3 e 1 l 1 a 1 n 1 c 3 h 4 o 1 l 1 i 1 a 1
11 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
originFrom Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Doublet of melancholy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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