Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sadness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sadness
n 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}]
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