Meanings
nounleucocholy (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe mood accompanying trivial activity.
Mine, you are to know, is a white Melancholy, or rather Leucocholy for the most part; which, though it seldom laughs or dances, nor ever amounts to what one calls Joy or Pleasure, yet is a good easy sort of a state, […]
a. 1772 (date written), Thomas Gray, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume II (Letters—I), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 113–114
Origin
leuco-, -choly (as in melancholy)
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