thumb| Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway made for [[Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, )]]
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thumb| Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway made for [[Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, )]]
Melancholia or melancholy (; from ) is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. Besides a pathological condition, melancholy could also refer to a mood or temperament and at times it was even used as a description of the human condition in general.
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