autumn melancholy
Fall's quiet sorrow
Autumn melancholy is the particular sadness that accompanies the transition from summer to winter—shorter days, falling leaves, the sense of things ending.
The feeling has deep literary roots, appearing in poetry from Keats to Rilke.
It combines wistfulness with a kind of pleasure in the season's beauty: There's an autumn melancholy I almost look forward to each year.
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- falling leavesDeciduous seasonal shedding
- fallen leavesDropped deciduous foliage
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
passing time · fading · fading light · bittersweet · harvest · dusk · late afternoon · shorter days · grey skies · longing · empty nest · November · decay · rust · amber · twilight · chill · cold wind
psychological disposition
autumn melancholyjoie de vivre
Exuberant enjoyment of existence
elation · jubilance · ebullience · exhilaration · lightheartedness