melancholist

Etymology

From melancholy + -ist.

melancholist means One affected with melancholy or dejection. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

MELANCHOLIST — [Noun] One affected with melancholy or dejection. From melancholy (from Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, "black bile"), from μέλας (mélas, "black") + χολή (kholḗ, "bile")) + -ist (denoting a person associated with a condition or quality). Unlike "melancholic" (a temperamental disposition) or "hypochondriac" (a fixation on bodily ills), a melancholist is one presently adrift in the gray expanse between thought and feeling. It is the figure on the park bench staring at pigeons as if they held answers, the slow drag of fingertips across dusty piano keys, the way rain on a window can make a room feel both smaller and infinite—the quiet recognition that sorrow, too, is a kind of weather.

noun

One affected with melancholy or dejection.“the Melancholist was afraid to ſit down for fear of being broken, ſuppoſing himself of Glass”