Melancholy vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
melancholy | foreboding |
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:
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
As adjectives the difference between melancholy and foreboding
is that melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression while foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.As nouns the difference between melancholy and foreboding
is that melancholy is black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.As a verb foreboding is
present participle of lang=en.melancholy
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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 .
foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.