pensiveness vs melancholy
melancholy vs pensivenesspensiveness and melancholy both are nouns.
pensiveness is not an adjective while melancholy is an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pensiveness | Yes | No | No | No |
| melancholy | Yes | Yes | No | No |
As nouns,
melancholy is a hypernym of
pensiveness; that is, melancholy is a
word with a broader meaning than pensiveness:
- pensiveness: persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- melancholy: a feeling of thoughtful sadness
| pensiveness (noun) | melancholy (noun) |
|---|---|
| deep serious thoughtfulness | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy |
| persistent morbid meditation on a problem | a feeling of thoughtful sadness |
| a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed |
| pensiveness (adjective) | melancholy (adjective) |
|---|---|
| grave or even gloomy in character | |
| characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
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