sadness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
unhappiness.
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noun the state of being sad
sorrow; sorrowfulness.
- she tired of his perpetual sadness
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noun the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
gloominess; lugubriousness.
WordNet
Sad"ness noun
Definitions
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Heaviness; firmness. Obs. -
Seriousness; gravity; discretion. Obs.Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer.
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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 .
