Melancholy
[n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
[n] a feeling of thoughtful sadness
[n] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
[adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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