Sentimental vs Melancholy - What's the difference?
sentimental | melancholy |
characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
romantic
Affected with great sadness or depression.
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*, Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), , V. i. 34:
As adjectives the difference between sentimental and melancholy
is that sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression.As a noun melancholy is
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentallyQuotations
* 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.Anagrams
* ----melancholy
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
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 .