Meaning of SADNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'sadnis
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- [n] emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
- [n] the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
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| | Synonyms: | | sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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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