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sadness

Pronunciation:  'sadnis

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
  2. [n]  the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
 
 Synonyms: sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
 
 Antonyms: happiness
 
 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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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