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Melancholia vs Brooding - What's the difference?

melancholia | brooding |

As nouns the difference between melancholia and brooding

is that melancholia is deep sadness or gloom; melancholy while brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

As an adjective brooding is

broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

As a verb brooding is

present participle of lang=en.

melancholia

English

Noun

  • Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
  • Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

    • Derived terms

    * melancholiac

    Related terms

    *melancholy *melancholic

    brooding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
    • A brooding hen can be aggressive.
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
    • You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Jon Caramanica, title=Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings , thick with doubt and fear.}}