Melancholy vs Sads - What's the difference?
melancholy | sads |
Affected with great sadness or depression.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
*, Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), , V. i. 34:
(only with definite article) Sadness or melancholy
* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=David C. Treadway, title=Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jQVHAAAAMAAJ, page=94
, passage=Lauris also tells the story of her putting some of her M&Ms into a bottle and calling them "Happiness Pills," which she sweetly offered when Martha had an episode of the Sads ."}}
* {{quote-book, year=2009, author=Leanne Rowe et al., title=I Just Want You To Be Happy, page=9, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dyrQlcMQcSIC&pg=PA9
, passage=When parents start to feel sad vibes coming through most of the time and think, 'I don't know you any more', there's likely to be more going on than an ordinary bout of the sads .}}
As nouns the difference between melancholy and sads
is that melancholy is black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies while sads is sadness or melancholy.As an adjective melancholy
is affected with great sadness or depression.melancholy
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* (thoughtful sadness) (l) * See alsoNoun
(melancholies)- 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.
- My mind was troubled with deep melancholy .