melancholies
Prolonged states of gloom
Melancholies is the plural of melancholy, referring to multiple instances or varieties of deep sadness or pensive gloom.
The word appears in literary contexts where different sorrows are distinguished or enumerated: the melancholies of exile and loss, autumn's familiar melancholies.
Deep emotional distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
dejection · gloom · heavyheartedness · doldrums · blues · tearfulness · wistfulness · forlornness
Observing one's own mind
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
musing · solitude · wistfulness · reverie · nostalgia · meditation · cogitation · self-reflection
State following loss
- lossBeing without something
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- funeralService honoring the dead
condolences · lamentation · requiem · elegy · remembrance · widow · orphan · keening
Emotional, imaginative worldview
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- elegiesPoems lamenting death
- minor keyScale with lowered third
- nocturneContemplative keyboard piece
chiaroscuro · Burton · Keats · Chopin · soliloquy · pathos · sublime · aesthetic
Accommodates someone's wishes
- black bileHumor causing gloom
- spleenBlood-filtering abdominal organ
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
saturnine · phlegmatic · choleric · sanguine · Hippocrates · Galen · medieval · Renaissance
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
woe · dejection · gloom · heavyheartedness · doldrums · blues · tearfulness · wistfulness · forlornness · disconsolation
introspection
Observing one's own mind
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
brooding · musing · solitude · wistfulness · reverie · nostalgia · meditation · cogitation · self-reflection · quietude
bereavement
State following loss
funeral · condolences · lamentation · requiem · elegy · remembrance · widow · orphan · keening · dirge
romanticism
Emotional, imaginative worldview
nocturne · chiaroscuro · Burton · Keats · Chopin · soliloquy · pathos · sublime · aesthetic · sentiment
humors
Accommodates someone's wishes
- black bileHumor causing gloom
- spleenBlood-filtering abdominal organ
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
constitution · saturnine · phlegmatic · choleric · sanguine · Hippocrates · Galen · medieval · Renaissance · temperamental
melancholiesjoys
Feelings of great pleasure
happinesses · elations · euphoria · bliss · delights
melancholiessanguinity
Cheerful confidence about outcomes
buoyancy · ebullience · exuberance · optimism · cheeriness
melancholiesenthusiasms
Intense eager interests
zests · exuberances · vitalities · passions · ardors
- melancholic tonePervading sense of sorrow