Difference between Histrionic and Melodramatic

HISTRIONIC vs MELODRAMATIC: NOUN

Plural The art of theatrical representation; dramatic manner or expression: as, the histrionics of a stump-speaker.
A dramatic performer; a stage-player.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.
Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental; histrionic.
Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected
Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama

Often affected
Pertaining to actors or acting; befitting the stage; theatrical; hence, feigned for effect; unreal.

Bathetic, Virtuosic, Operatic, Shrill, Declamatory, Pompous, Mawkish, Florid, Overdramatic, Overwrought, Hysterical, Bombastic, Stagy, Theatrical, Melodramatic

Trite, Schmaltzy, Hackneyed, Overdramatic, Sappy, Cliched, Maudlin, Overwrought, Mawkish, Tragic, Drama, Operatic, Dramatic, Theatrical, Histrionic

Bathetic, Virtuosic, Operatic, Shrill, Declamatory, Pompous, Mawkish, Florid, Overdramatic, Overwrought, Hysterical, Bombastic, Stagy, Theatrical, Melodramatic

Trite, Schmaltzy, Hackneyed, Overdramatic, Sappy, Cliched, Maudlin, Overwrought, Mawkish, Tragic, Drama, Operatic, Dramatic, Theatrical, Histrionic

Passy with an histrionic skill that makes hard old bankers weep.
This grouping consists of antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders.
Psychiatrists diagnosed her with narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders.
Has anyone ever dealt with a friend who is histrionic?
We are not coming to engage in any histrionic gesture.
Learn more about the risk associated to histrionic disorder.
Which is a characteristic of histrionic personality disorder?
However, histrionic or borderline personalities are also common.
This is histrionic, but true in some aspects.
Magnotta displayed antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic traits.

Kiryu, despite his compelling and oh so melodramatic backstory.
He lowered her to the mattress, a melodramatic gasp.
This vulnerability s displayed in the melodramatic overdose sequence.
Much funnier and less melodramatic than that might sound.
The whole thing just seems so melodramatic to me.
He's not going to play the melodramatic role.".
DONT try to be melodramatic in any way.
The circumstances were rather sentimental and somewhat melodramatic.
Dr Noll has a flare for the melodramatic.
Not only does the explication vary from the standard melodramatic plot, but Balzac plays ironically with expectations of melodramatic endings, as well.