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Webster 1913 Edition
Sadness
Sad′ness
,Noun.
 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 
That time celestial visages.
sadness 
did not spareThat time celestial visages.
Milton.
Syn. – Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See 
Grief
. Webster 1828 Edition
Sadness
SAD'NESS
, n.1.
  Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.2.
  A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.
3.
  Seriousness; sedate gravity.  Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.Definition 2025
sadness
sadness
English
Noun
sadness (countable and uncountable, plural sadnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
 -  (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
- She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.
 
 
Synonyms
- (state of being sad): forlornness, melancholy
 - (event causing sadness): misfortune, woe
 
Translations
state/emotion
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