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melancholia| Depressive disposition attributed to the influence of one of the humours in pre-scientific thought; melancholia was thought to be particularly characteristic of writers and thinkers. |
| The psychological states associated with it were assembled and analysed by the English philosopher Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy 1621. |
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