Word of the day - MELANCHOLY

The word today is Melancholy 

Melancholy is a noun and from my research means the following:

- Sadness or depressed spirit often with a sense of gloom or foreboding.

- Pensive contemplation of something, sometimes wistful or desirous.

- An induced state of longing, often self-induced, tainted with self-pity. 

 

Your suffering of melancholy is melancholia.

Your character my be said to be melancholic.

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