Melancholic Characters
Melancholic Personality Type
Characters with a melancholic personality type tend to be organized, detailed, thoughtful and cautious. This type of personality need to learn to communicate their feelings, they have a very sensitive emotional nature.
Strengths of Melancholic Temperament
Analytical
Melancholic people usually lean toward being analytical and intellectual. They can effective at problem-solving, planning, and organizing.
Organized
Melancholics are often organized and perfectionists, they tend to set high standards for themselves and when the perfect outcome is not achieved, they can become angered.
Loyal
For melancholics, loyalty must be earned, but once trust is earned, they tend to be loyal for life and often meet the expectations of the people they care about.
Sensitive
They are kind and sensitive when it comes to others. They are good at listening and they are supportive and helpful.
Quiet
Characters with this temperament are typically quiet, calm, and silent. They often choose to hide their feelings even during situations with extreme joy or anger.
Patient
The temperament of these characters tends to be patient even in particular situations where many other people could lose their temper.
Creative
Melancholics are great lovers of artistic beauty and express themselves masterfully in both music and art.
Thinker
Melancholy people often get lost in their thoughts. Before answering a question they evaluate all the consequences. They love to linger in front of a landscape and think about everything that surrounds them.
Other Sanguine strengths
- Thoughtful
- Idealistic
- Purposeful
- Finds creative solutions
- Artistic and musical
- Philosophical and poetic
- Appreciative of beauty
- Makes friends cautiously
- Faithful
- Sensitive to others
- Can solve others' problems
- Conscientious
- Schedule oriented
- Perfectionist
- Sees the problems
- Deep concern for other people
- Needs to finish what she starts
- Content to stay in background
- Avoids causing attention
Weaknesses of a Melancholic Temperament
Lonely
Melancholic characters are comfortable when they are alone, preferring to be left alone instead of being surrounded by people they don't feel comfortable with.
Moody
The melancholy characters often change mood even within the same day, they are very moody and emotionally unstable.
Insecure
They often tend to dwell too much on every decision due to their deep insecurity. Also for this reason they do not like to relate to other people.
Other Sanguine weaknesses
- Depressed
- Vengeful
- Unforgiving and hard to please
- Remembers the negatives
- Enjoys being hurt
- Low self-esteem and self-loathing
- Self-centered
- Too introspective
- Guilt feelings
- Critical of others
- Hesitant to start projects
- Persecution complex
- Skeptical of compliments
- Tends to hypochondria
- Not people oriented
- Suspicious of people
- Depressed over imperfections
- Full of contradictions
- Spends too much time planning
- Prefers analysis to work
- Self-deprecating
- Standards often too high
- Deep need for approval
- Lives through others
- Withdrawn and remote
- Holds back affection