Indignation vs Spleen - What's the difference?
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An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
A self-righteous anger or disgust.
(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
A bad mood; spitefulness.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
* Shakespeare
Indignation is a related term of spleen.
As nouns the difference between indignation and spleen
is that indignation is an anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice while spleen is obsession,.indignation
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(en noun)- In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
- A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
- Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .
- There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
- Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .