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English
Noun
lypemania (uncountable)
- (archaic) melancholy, mournfulness
2008 April 27, Kathryn Harrison, “Diagnosis: Female”, in New York Times:Victorian women who weren’t locked up for falling victim to lypemania (melancholy), monomania, homicidal monomania or “moral insanity” were at risk of neurasthenia, a “mirror image of rebellion” in which their “nervous depletion” was explained as the result of their “incursion into the masculine sphere of intellectual labor,” a strain that constitutions formed for tender sentiment couldn’t be expected to support.