body fluid vs melancholy

melancholy vs body fluid

body fluid and melancholy both are nouns.

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

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

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

body 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 body 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.

body 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

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

Difference between body fluid and melancholy

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