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Sadness

Sadness Meaning & Definition
Sadness Definition And Meaning

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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