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leucocholy

leucocholy noun: the mood accompanying trivial activity.

Noun

leucocholy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The mood accompanying trivial activity.
    • Mine, you are to know, is a white Melancholy, or rather Leucocholy for the most part; which, though it seldom laughs or dances, nor ever amounts to what one calls Joy or Pleasure, yet is a good easy sort of a state, […]a. 1772 (date written), Thomas Gray, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume II (Letters—I), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 113–114

Origin of leucocholy

leuco-, -choly (as in melancholy)

Questions about leucocholy

What does leucocholy mean?
Leucocholy means the mood accompanying trivial activity.
What part of speech is leucocholy?
Leucocholy is a noun.

Words near leucocholy in the dictionary

  1. leucoblastoma
  2. leucoblastomas
  3. leucoblasts
  4. leucobryaceous
  5. leucocholic
  6. leucocholy
  7. leucocianidol
  8. leucocidal
  9. leucocidic
  10. leucocidin
  11. leucocidins

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