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Mournful Medley
of Melancholy
THE DARK AND MELANCHOLY
WORD LISTS
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library: Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
WORD LISTS
- Mournful Medley of Melancholy
- Crazy and Bizarre Thoughts We Have
- Only the Lonely Know Why
- Beautiful Words of Unpleasantry
- Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
- A State of Madness or a State of Mind
- Duality of +/- Emotion
- Are you a Ginormous Grumbletonian?
- It was a Dark and Gloomy Rainy Day
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WORDS OF MELANCHOLY
There is life and death and in between there is
beauty and melancholy
beauty and melancholy
Melancholia (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole "black bile", "blackness of the bile" also Latin lugere, lugubriousness meaning to mourn, Latin morosus, moroseness of self-will or fastidious habit, and old English wist, wistfulness of intent or saturnine. Melancholia is a condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. In psychology it is the predecessor of the mental health diagnosis of clinical depression, and the term is currently used as a subtype for major depression known as melancholic depression.
The word melancholia comes from the old medical belief of the four humours: a disease or ailment caused by an imbalance in one or more of the four basic bodily liquids, or what are referred to as humours. Personality types were determined by the dominant humor in a person. According to Hippocrates melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, which itself derives from the Ancient Greek (melas), meaning "dark, black", and (kholé), meaning "bile.” A melancholic person therefore has an imbalance in bile.
Hippocrates characterized all "fears and despondencies, if they last a long time" as being symptomatic of melancholia. Other symptoms included: poor appetite, abulia, sleeplessness, irritability, agitation. The Hippocratic clinical description shows significant consistencies with the contemporary diagnosis of depression as they share 6 symptoms out of the 9 as stated in DSM diagnostic criteria for a Major Depressive.
In the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, the causes of melancholia are stated to be similar to those that cause mania: "grief, pains of the spirit, passions, as well as all the love and sexual appetites that go unsatisfied.”
WORD LIST
ATRABILIOUS - a rare word with a history that parallels that of the more common "melancholy." It represents one of the four bodily humors, from which it was once believed that human emotions originated, and derives from the Latin atra bilis, literally meaning "black bile." The word melancholy derives from the Greek melan- and chole, which also translates as "black bile." In its original sense, atrabilious meant "melancholy," but now it is more frequently used to describe someone with an irritable or unfriendly temperament.
APATHY - lack of feeling or emotion. Impassive. Lacking any interest or concern.
DESIDERIUM - defined as an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of loss or grief for something lost. It also has a meaning of having feelings for something that we no longer have and wish very much we did. Desiderium comes from the word desiderare, meaning “to long for.”
DOLDRUMS - a state of sadness
DIFFIDENT - hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
DOLOROUS - causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief. Comes from the Latin word dolor, meaning "pain" as well as "grief." Today, dolor is also an English word meaning "sorrow."
DOZAKH - In simple terms, the Persian lafz dozakh means hell. Similar to the Arabic word Jahannum. Metaphorically it refers to a place of torment one believes to be in when separated from their lover.,
LUGUBRIOUS - exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
TRISTFUL - sad or melancholy
FANTOD - state of irritability and tension or an emotional outburst. Mark Twain used the word to refer to uneasiness or restlessness as shown by nervous movements known as the fidgets. In Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn't somehow seem to take to them, because … they always give me the fantods." The exact origin of fantod is unknown, but it may have arisen from fantigue, a word once used by Dickens that refers to a state of great tension may be a blend of fantastic and fatigue.
MONO NO AWARE - Mono no aware literally means "the pathos of things", and translates as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera.” It is a Japanese word for the awareness of impermanence or transience of things, with both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life. Mono-no aware is a bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can last.
PLAINTIVE - expressive of suffering or woe. Plaintive is often used to describe sad sounds. "A plaintive wail," for example. Plaintive and the similar words, plangent, plaintiff and complain, ultimately derive from the Latin verb plangere, meaning "to strike," "to beat one's breast," or "to lament." This Latin verb led to "plaint," an Anglo-French word meaning "lamentation." "Plaint" is the root of Middle English "plaintif" meaning "lamenting" or "complaining"
SAUDADE - is a deep emotional state of nostalgia or a profound melancholic longing for something or someone missing. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, but now trigger the pain of separation and loss. However it acknowledges that longing l for the past would detract from the excitement of thefuture. So therefore, Saudade describes both happy and sad at the same time, translates into English as ‘bitter sweet’.
SEHNSUCHT - is a German word translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning", or "craving". Some psychologists use the word to represent thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences.
SORROW - deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved.
Similar words are GRIEF, ANGUISH, WOE, REGRET as they all mean distress of mind.
SPLENETIC - an archaic word meaning “given to melancholy or marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite.”
TARANTISM - associated with melancholy, stupor, madness and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It comes from a disease manifesting as the result from the bite of the tarantula spider. Dancing off the tarantula venom was considered the only cure. The dancing was violent and energetic and went on for 3 or 4 days.
TOSKA - Russian word that roughly translates as sadness, melancholia, or lugubriousness. No word in English describes the deep and painful spiritual anguish that often has no specific cause. It leaves a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, and a profound yearning.
WELTSCHMERZ - from the German word literally meaning “world-pain” and also meaning world weariness. It was coined by the German author Jean Paul in his 1827 novel Selina. It denotes a deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world. The translation can differ depending on context, in reference to the self it can mean "world weariness", in reference to the world it can mean "the pain of the world".
The word melancholia comes from the old medical belief of the four humours: a disease or ailment caused by an imbalance in one or more of the four basic bodily liquids, or what are referred to as humours. Personality types were determined by the dominant humor in a person. According to Hippocrates melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, which itself derives from the Ancient Greek (melas), meaning "dark, black", and (kholé), meaning "bile.” A melancholic person therefore has an imbalance in bile.
Hippocrates characterized all "fears and despondencies, if they last a long time" as being symptomatic of melancholia. Other symptoms included: poor appetite, abulia, sleeplessness, irritability, agitation. The Hippocratic clinical description shows significant consistencies with the contemporary diagnosis of depression as they share 6 symptoms out of the 9 as stated in DSM diagnostic criteria for a Major Depressive.
In the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, the causes of melancholia are stated to be similar to those that cause mania: "grief, pains of the spirit, passions, as well as all the love and sexual appetites that go unsatisfied.”
WORD LIST
ATRABILIOUS - a rare word with a history that parallels that of the more common "melancholy." It represents one of the four bodily humors, from which it was once believed that human emotions originated, and derives from the Latin atra bilis, literally meaning "black bile." The word melancholy derives from the Greek melan- and chole, which also translates as "black bile." In its original sense, atrabilious meant "melancholy," but now it is more frequently used to describe someone with an irritable or unfriendly temperament.
APATHY - lack of feeling or emotion. Impassive. Lacking any interest or concern.
DESIDERIUM - defined as an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of loss or grief for something lost. It also has a meaning of having feelings for something that we no longer have and wish very much we did. Desiderium comes from the word desiderare, meaning “to long for.”
DOLDRUMS - a state of sadness
DIFFIDENT - hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
DOLOROUS - causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief. Comes from the Latin word dolor, meaning "pain" as well as "grief." Today, dolor is also an English word meaning "sorrow."
DOZAKH - In simple terms, the Persian lafz dozakh means hell. Similar to the Arabic word Jahannum. Metaphorically it refers to a place of torment one believes to be in when separated from their lover.,
- Dozakhi - hellish
- Dozakh-e-ehsaas – hell of emotions
- Fikr-e-dozakh – hellish worry
- Zikr-e-dozakh – mention of hell
- Khauf-e-dozakh – fear of hell
- Aatish-e-dozakh – fire of hell
LUGUBRIOUS - exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
TRISTFUL - sad or melancholy
FANTOD - state of irritability and tension or an emotional outburst. Mark Twain used the word to refer to uneasiness or restlessness as shown by nervous movements known as the fidgets. In Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn't somehow seem to take to them, because … they always give me the fantods." The exact origin of fantod is unknown, but it may have arisen from fantigue, a word once used by Dickens that refers to a state of great tension may be a blend of fantastic and fatigue.
MONO NO AWARE - Mono no aware literally means "the pathos of things", and translates as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera.” It is a Japanese word for the awareness of impermanence or transience of things, with both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life. Mono-no aware is a bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can last.
PLAINTIVE - expressive of suffering or woe. Plaintive is often used to describe sad sounds. "A plaintive wail," for example. Plaintive and the similar words, plangent, plaintiff and complain, ultimately derive from the Latin verb plangere, meaning "to strike," "to beat one's breast," or "to lament." This Latin verb led to "plaint," an Anglo-French word meaning "lamentation." "Plaint" is the root of Middle English "plaintif" meaning "lamenting" or "complaining"
SAUDADE - is a deep emotional state of nostalgia or a profound melancholic longing for something or someone missing. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, but now trigger the pain of separation and loss. However it acknowledges that longing l for the past would detract from the excitement of thefuture. So therefore, Saudade describes both happy and sad at the same time, translates into English as ‘bitter sweet’.
SEHNSUCHT - is a German word translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning", or "craving". Some psychologists use the word to represent thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences.
SORROW - deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved.
Similar words are GRIEF, ANGUISH, WOE, REGRET as they all mean distress of mind.
- GRIEF implies poignant sorrow for an immediate cause.
- ANGUISH suggests torturing grief or dread.
- WOE is deep or inconsolable grief or misery.
- REGRET implies pain caused by deep disappointment, fruitless longing, or unavailing remorse.
SPLENETIC - an archaic word meaning “given to melancholy or marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite.”
TARANTISM - associated with melancholy, stupor, madness and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It comes from a disease manifesting as the result from the bite of the tarantula spider. Dancing off the tarantula venom was considered the only cure. The dancing was violent and energetic and went on for 3 or 4 days.
TOSKA - Russian word that roughly translates as sadness, melancholia, or lugubriousness. No word in English describes the deep and painful spiritual anguish that often has no specific cause. It leaves a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, and a profound yearning.
WELTSCHMERZ - from the German word literally meaning “world-pain” and also meaning world weariness. It was coined by the German author Jean Paul in his 1827 novel Selina. It denotes a deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world. The translation can differ depending on context, in reference to the self it can mean "world weariness", in reference to the world it can mean "the pain of the world".
THE DARK AND MELANCHOLY
WORD LISTS
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library
WORD LISTS
- Mournful Medley of Melancholy
- Crazy and Bizarre Thoughts We Have
- Only the Lonely Know Why
- Beautiful Words of Unpleasantry
- Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
- A State of Madness or a State of Mind
- Duality of +/- Emotion
- Are you a Ginormous Grumbletonian?
- It was a Dark and Gloomy Rainy Day
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library
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Collection of Vocabulary Books, Sites and Resources
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Words are also posted on twitter under the hashtags #beautifulwords and shared on pinterest boards
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