Synonyms of melancholia

nounDeep sadness or gloom; melancholy.

• gloom
• melancholyGreat sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
• sadness
• bluenessMelancholy.
• tristesse literarySadness.
• mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
• bluesA feeling of sadness or depression.
• crestfallennessThe quality of being crestfallen.
• dejectionA state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
• depressionA state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future...
• despondencyA feeling of depression or disheartenment.
• distress
• dolefulnessThe characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
• downheartednessThe characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
• forlornnessThe state or characteristic of being forlorn; sadness; loneliness.
• griefEmotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or...
• ill-beingThe state of being ill, unhealthy, or unhappy; misery; miserableness.
• infelicity
• miseryGreat unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
• mourn literarySorrow, grief.
• sorrowUnhappiness, woe.
• sorrowfulnessThe quality or state of sorrow; sadness.
• tristfulnessSadness; sorrow; melancholy.
• undelightThe condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
• unhappinessThe feeling of not being happy.
• woeGreat sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
• woefareDiscontentment; sorrow; unhappiness.
• wretchednessAn unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
• drearihead obsoleteSadness; dreariness.
• heartsore rareHeartache, misery, grief.
• mishappiness obsoleteUnhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
• prosternation obsoleteDejection; depression.
• regret obsolete
• rue archaic, dialectalSorrow; repentance; regret.
• ruth obsoleteDistress, misery, sorrow.