Melancholic temperament

This is my personalities. I am a Perfect Melancholy. What's yours?

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Melancholy

The four basic temperaments or "humors" were developed by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates as a medical theory to describe aspects of a personality. A personality, as a whole, is too unique and complex to fit into a four quadrant box. A temperament is a piece of the personality; it is the fundamental, innate nexus of an individual.

I like to refer to the Melancholic as the iceberg temperament--little is happening on the surface, but there’s a whole other world just beneath the surface that, as I’ve come to conclude over time, some people are able to understand and some just aren’t.

When planning a meal, people in Shakespeare's day paid special attention to humors or temperaments, whether sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, or melancholic.

Four Tempraments

The Melancholy personality is introverted, analytical, and quality oriented. They prefer private environments. Learn more about the Melancholy on Four Temperaments and what drives and motivates this personality type.

The 4 Temperaments: Choleric, Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Melancholic. Aim, priority, seeks, style, fears, under pressure, motivation

The Deep People

Melancholic personality traits are associated with serotonin activity, that is why these men and women are calm and self-confident. Their happiness depends on family, friends and other social ties.

Melancholy Personality: Perfect

The Four Temperments: Four Personality Types. The Four Temperaments is a proto-psychological theory.