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What is the noun for melancholy?

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melancholy
  1. (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
  2. Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He would eventually abandon the deep melancholy and sadness that had haunted him for much of his life.”
melancholia
  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
  2. (pathology) Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I bolted over to Boite Noire to rent it, thinking the plot sounded like a sweet bit of melancholia.”
      “We characterize it in the same manner as melancholia, tristesse, ennui, annoyance and wearisomeness.”
      “Instinctive, impulsive melodies meet melancholia and melodrama in gay tales of arch commentary and frank observation.”
melancholian
  1. (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
melancholist
  1. (obsolete) One affected with melancholy or dejection.
melancholic
melancholiness
  1. The quality of being melancholy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The days came and went, and after a few months of melancholiness he grew a little bit better.”
melancholick
  1. Obsolete form of melancholic.
melancholie
  1. Obsolete form of melancholy.
melancholiac
  1. Synonym of melancholic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists.”
      “The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.”
      “A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac.”
melancholiacs
  1. plural of melancholiac
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Do these films transform us into male melancholiacs, or are we merely passive spectators?”
      “Provided they see and think, even melancholiacs cannot fail to be uplifted by the document.”
      “Modernism has always had two kinds of artist: the designers and the melancholiacs.”
melancholicks
  1. plural of melancholick
melancholians
  1. plural of melancholian
melancholists
  1. plural of melancholist
melancholics
  1. plural of melancholic
melancholias
melancholies
  1. plural of melancholy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But their melancholies had rapidly evaporated in the warmth of the unexpected encounter.”
      “Moreover, every body knows how wonderfully the mind is disturbed in melancholies.”
      “In portraying the poetic melancholies of Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs and others, the composer evidently wants us to feel bad too.”
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