Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heaviness; weight; firmness; strength.
- noun Steadiness; steadfastness; constancy.
- noun Seriousness; gravity; discretion; sedateness; sobriety; sober earnest.
- noun The state of being sad or sorrowful; sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind: as, sadness in the remembrance of loss.
- noun A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.
- noun Synonyms Grief, Sorrow, etc. (see
affliction ); despondency, melancholy, depression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Heaviness; firmness.
- noun obsolete Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
- noun Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or
emotion of beingsad . - noun countable An event in one's
life that causes sadness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
- noun the state of being sad
- noun the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Etymologies
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Examples
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For who would willingly speak on these subjects, if as often as we used the term sadness or fear, we should thereby be compelled to be sad or fearful?
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Sure this dusty road has been walked before, but the band are pretty savvy wallowers: They understand their sadness is an American institution and that part of the tragedy of their roots revival is that this heartbreaking music needs to be revived at all.
Deer Tick at Tractor Tavern: Finger-Plucked-Melodies Worn Down by Melancholy. « PubliCola 2010
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You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011
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You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011
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You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Terence Clarke 2011
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Yet Joe's "sadness" is reserved only for John McCain.
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Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him.
Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage Kate Saunders 2010
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Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him.
Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage Kate Saunders 2010
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Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him.
Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage Kate Saunders 2010
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Cloture would fail and then Lott would “more in sadness than in anger” withdraw the measure.
cricket commented on the word sadness
I say this when things don't go my way over trifles. Like when I realized that commute wouldn't fit on my Words with Method to their Madness list. "Sadness."
March 3, 2008