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- Dictionarymelancholy/ˈmɛlənk(ə)li/
noun
- 1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause: "an air of melancholy surrounded him"
adjective
- 1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive: "she felt a little melancholy"
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4 days ago · The melancholy patient belittles themselves, speaks of themselves in terms of contempt, feels morally reprehensible and unworthy of someone else's love. The condition is accompanied by eating disorder, sleeplessness and loss of the will to live.
- Tormod Knutsen
- 2020
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