Solitude vs Melancholy - What's the difference?
solitude | melancholy |
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.
* 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
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:
As nouns the difference between solitude and melancholy
is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself while melancholy is black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.As an adjective melancholy is
affected with great sadness or depression.solitude
English
Noun
(wikipedia solitude)- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.
Synonyms
* alonenessAntonyms
* intimacyDerived terms
* two solitudesSee also
* loneliness ----melancholy
English
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 .