Usually means: Deep, persistent feelings of sadness.
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  1. melancholies: Merriam-Webster
  2. melancholies: Collins English Dictionary
  3. melancholies: Vocabulary.com
  4. melancholies: Wordnik
  5. melancholies: Wiktionary
  6. melancholies: Dictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melancholies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See melancholy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (melancholy)

noun:  (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
noun:  Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
adjective:  (literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
▸ Also see melancholy


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