Antonyms for spleen

Grammar : Noun

Spell : spleen

Phonetic Transcription : splin

Definition of spleen

Origin : c.1300, from Old French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen, from PIE *splegh- (cf. Sanskrit plihan-, Avestan sperezan, Armenian p'aicaln, Latin lien, Old Church Slavonic slezena, Lithuanian bluznis, Old Prussian blusne, Old Irish selg "spleen"). Regarded in medieval physiology as the seat of morose feelings and bad temper. Hence figurative sense of "violent ill-temper" (1590s).

noun hate

Example sentences :

Which speaks of an intemperance in the splenetic parenchyma; that is to say, the spleen.
Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire

And there's Saunders, who talks about nothing but his spleen.
Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro

As you will; let us go indoors by all means, for this moon gives me the spleen.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

On April 19, 1888, the spleen was removed, the wound healed by first intention.
Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich

The most recent work on extirpation of the spleen for tumours is from Hartmann and Vasquez.
Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich

The spleen has not the least connection with ordinary leucocytosis.
Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich

This, with many other benevolent acts, served only to excite the spleen of his adversaries.
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

We seem gay, but at bottom we are devoured by spleen and a raging appetite.
Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley

In this fit of the spleen he went to the theatre: there were eleven people in the boxes.
Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli

Dan Sullivan let no chance pass to vent his spleen on Larry.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various

Synonyms for spleen

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