Brooding vs. Melancholia: What's the Difference?

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.

Extreme, persistent sadness or hopelessness; depression. No longer in clinical use.

The children in one family.

Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry

(pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

To be depressed

A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

To sit on or hatch eggs.

Extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears

To protect developing eggs or young.

To hover envelopingly; hang

To think about (something) persistently or moodily

To sit on or hatch (eggs).

To protect (developing eggs or young).

Kept for breeding

(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Present participle of brood

A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

Worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.

Good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.

The process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; - mostly used of birds.

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

Persistent morbid meditation on a problem

Persistently or morbidly thoughtful