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Melancholia vs Reverie - What's the difference?

melancholia | reverie |

As nouns the difference between melancholia and reverie

is that melancholia is deep sadness or gloom; melancholy while reverie is daydream, reverie.

melancholia

English

Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * melancholiac

    Related terms

    *melancholy *melancholic

    reverie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * revery

    Etymology 1

    , of uncertain origin. Compare rave.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
  • * 1847 , Alfred Tennyson, The Princess , Canto VII, lines 107-108
    • we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie ,
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=3 citation , passage=He fell into a reverie', a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into ' reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie , and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.}}
  • An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
  • * (rfdate)
    • If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.

    Synonyms

    * (state of dreaming while awake) air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism

    See also

    * build castles in the air * woolgather * (daydream) ----