bodily fluid vs melancholy

melancholy vs bodily fluid

bodily fluid and melancholy both are nouns.

bodily fluid is not an adjective while melancholy is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily fluid	Yes	No	No	No
melancholy	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, melancholy is a hyponym of bodily fluid; that is, melancholy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily fluid:

bodily fluid: the liquid parts of the body
melancholy: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Other hyponyms of bodily fluid include aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, endolymph, perilymph, ECF, extracellular fluid, intracellular fluid, juice, succus, karyolymph, milk, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters, blood, blood serum, serum, chyle, lymph, come, cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid, ink, secretion, black bile, choler, yellow bile, lochia, festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration, cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid.

bodily fluid (noun)	melancholy (noun)
the liquid parts of the body	a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
	a feeling of thoughtful sadness
	a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

bodily fluid (adjective)	melancholy (adjective)
	grave or even gloomy in character
	characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

Difference between bodily fluid and melancholy

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