Ill-boding vs Melancholy - What's the difference?

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Ill-boding is a related term of melancholy.

As adjectives the difference between ill-boding and melancholy

is that ill-boding is which bodes evil, spelling bad things while melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression.

As a noun melancholy is

(historical) black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

ill-boding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

which bodes evil, spelling bad things

Synonyms

* inauspicious

Antonyms

* auspicious

melancholy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Affected with great sadness or depression.

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Synonyms

* (thoughtful sadness) (l) * See also

Noun

(melancholies)

(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

*, Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:

Melancholy , cold and dry, thick, black, and sour,is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), , V. i. 34:

My mind was troubled with deep melancholy .