Sinking vs Melancholy - What's the difference?
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The act or process of sinking.
* 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
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:
Sinking is a related term of melancholy.
As nouns the difference between sinking and melancholy
is that sinking is the act or process of sinking while melancholy is (historical) black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.As a verb sinking
is .As an adjective melancholy is
affected with great sadness or depression.sinking
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* like rats from a sinking shipNoun
(en noun)- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
- We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district
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 .
