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Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood.

Contents

• Health and medicine
• Film and television
• Art and music
• Other uses
• See also

Melancholia may also refer to:

Health and medicine

• Depression (mood), a state of low mood also known as "melancholia"
• Major depressive disorder, a mood disorder historically called "melancholia"
• Involutional melancholia, a traditional name for a psychiatric disorder affecting mainly elderly or late middle-aged people that is no longer in use
• Melancholic depression, a DSM-IV and DSM-5 specifier of depressive disorders.

Film and television

• Melancholia, a 1989 British-German film by Andi Engel, starring Jeroen Krabbé
• Melancholia (2008 film), a Philippine film by Lav Diaz
• Melancholia (2011 film), an English-language film by Lars von Trier
• Melancholia (TV series), a 2021 South Korean thriller TV series

Art and music

• "Melancholia", a musical composition by Duke Ellington that first appeared on the 1953 album The Duke Plays Ellington
• Melencolia I , a 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer
• Melancholy (novel) or Melancholia I, a 1995 novel by Jon Fosse
• Melancholy II or Melancholia II, a 1996 novella by Jon Fosse
• Melancholia (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Colmar), 1532
• Melancholia (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Copenhagen), 1532
• Melancholia is an album by keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in 2025 and is the third in a series of records of all piano suites.

Other uses

• 5708 Melancholia, an asteroid

See also

• Melancholy (disambiguation)
• La Malinconia (disambiguation)

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