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Melancholiac

noun
1.
Someone subject to melancholia.  Synonym: melancholic.






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"Melancholiac" Quotes from Famous Books



... influence is not due to the mere fact that his emotion is painful. Joyous emotions about the self also stop the association of our ideas. A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac. And, without going as far as ecstatic saints, we know how in every one a great or sudden pleasure may paralyze the flow of thought. Ask young people returning from a party or a spectacle, and all excited ...
— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James

... melancholy. If the arm or leg is raised it will be held thus outstretched without any attempt to restore it to a more natural position of rest for minutes at a time. The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia praecox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life. Symptoms of this sort are especially common in children with intestinal and alimentary disturbances of ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron



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