Definitions for: Sadness

[n] emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
[n] the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

Webster (1913) 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.

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

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