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Sadness - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Sadness : (noun)
1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn:
unhappiness] [ant: happiness]
2: the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
[syn: sorrow, sorrowfulness]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sadness : \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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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