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brador
2 days ago
What would be the correct latin/greek word for it?
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stavros
2 days ago
Melanotrypophobia, although the Greek term is "mayri trypa", literally "black hole".
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brador
1 day ago
Any relation to the words melancholy?
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stavros
1 day ago
Yes, as the sibling said, melancholy means "black bile".
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ButlerianJihad
1 day ago
Yes, that is cognate with ancient Greek
μελαγχολία
, and with the same root:
μέλας
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/melancholy
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kortilla
2 days ago
Hypochondriac
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