humour vs melancholy

melancholy vs humour

humour and melancholy both are nouns.

humour is not an adjective while melancholy is an adjective.

humour is a verb but melancholy is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
humour	Yes	No	Yes	No
melancholy	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

humour: 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 humour 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.

humour (noun)	melancholy (noun)
the quality of being funny	a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous	a feeling of thoughtful sadness
the liquid parts of the body	a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

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

humour (verb)	melancholy (verb)
put into a good mood

Difference between humour and melancholy

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