Melancholy vs. Solitude — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Melancholy and Solitude
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Melancholy
A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
He had an ability to convey a sense of deep melancholy and yearning through much of his work
An air of melancholy surrounded him
At the centre of his music lies a profound melancholy and nostalgia
Solitude
Solitude is a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people. It can have both positive and negative effects, depending on the situation.
Melancholy
Having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive
She felt a little melancholy
A dark, melancholy young man with deep-set eyes
Solitude
The state or quality of being alone or remote from others
Composers need solitude to work.
Melancholy
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
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Solitude
The state of being secluded or uninhabited
Sought out the solitude of the forest.
Melancholy
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
Solitude
A secluded or uninhabited place
"Beyond his bleak sky-line there stretched vast solitudes" (Jack London).
Melancholy
Black bile.
Solitude
Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
Melancholy
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Solitude
A lonely or deserted place.
Melancholy
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
Solitude
State of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
O Solitude! where are the charmsThat sages have seen in thy face?
Melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom
A letter with some melancholy news.
Solitude
Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; - said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.
Melancholy
Pensive; thoughtful.
Solitude
Solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
In these deep solitudes and awful cellsWhere heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.
It is a place of seclusion from the external world.
These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.
Melancholy
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Solitude
A state of social isolation
Melancholy
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Solitude
A solitary place
Melancholy
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.
Solitude
A disposition toward being alone
Melancholy
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Melancholy
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
Melancholy
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Melancholy
Ill nature.
Melancholy
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Melancholy
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
Melancholy
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Melancholy
Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
Melancholy
A feeling of thoughtful sadness
Melancholy
A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholy
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Melancholy
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
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