different between dejection vs melancholia

English

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d??k??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??d??k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

dejection (countable and uncountable, plural dejections)

1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
   • Bishop Pearson

     Adoration implies submission and dejection.

3. A low condition; weakness; inability.
   • Arbuthnot

     a dejection of appetite

4. (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.

Synonyms

• (melancholy, depression, low spirits): despondency, downheartedness, crestfallenness
• (defecation or feces): excrement, bowel movement

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term ?????????? (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”), from ????? (mélas), ?????- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + ???? (khol?, “bile”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??li?

Noun

melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

   Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness

2. (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

Derived terms

• melancholiac

Translations

Related terms

• melancholy
• melancholic

Polish

Etymology

From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (melankholía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.lan?x?.l?a/

Noun

melancholia f

1. melancholy

Declension

Derived terms

• melancholik, melancholiczka
• melancholiczny
• melancholicznie

Further reading

• melancholia in Polish dictionaries at PWN