About The Word Sadness
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Sadness
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What's The Definition Of Sadness?
[n] emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
[n] the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sadness: sorrow | sorrowfulness | unhappiness Related Terms | Find terms related to Sadness: See Also | bereavement | cheerlessness | depression | desolation | dispiritedness | dolefulness | downheartedness | feeling | forlornness | loneliness | low-spiritedness | melancholy | misery | mourning | poignance | poignancy | regret | ruefulness | sorrow | tearfulness | uncheerfulness | unhappiness | weepiness Sadness In Webster's Dictionary \Sad"ness\, n.
1. Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.]
2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.]
Her sadness and her benignity. --Chaucer.
3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess;
sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial
visages. --Milton.
Syn: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See {Grief}.
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