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melancholia

3 antonyms for melancholia — opposites grouped by meaning.

Noun — A deep and lasting feeling of sadness or gloom.

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From 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 s...

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