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/sˈædnəs/ Listen

noun

Sadness n.

Heaviness; firmness. (Obs.)

Seriousness; gravity; discretion. (Obs.) "Her sadness and her benignity."

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. "Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages."

Synonyms: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... you were going to find me?" Mariana asked suddenly. The tears were still shining on her cheeks, but there was no sadness in her eyes. ...

— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev

... sighed. Sadness seemed to have crept over her, like a cold mist from the night. It was as if she could dimly see her plans foredoomed, and yet hoped on in spite of it. The fatalism that she scorned as Muhammad's lie held her in its grip, and her natural courage fought with it. Womanlike, ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... is full of woe, I would that it were one of gladness; I would not thrill your hearts, you know, With notes of grief or sadness. ...

— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... pictures by earth's proudest painters, cased in gold on walls of council chambers where Venice sat enthroned a queen, where nobles swept the floors with robes of Tyrian brocade. These reminiscences will be attended by an ever-present sense of loneliness and silence in the world around; the sadness of a limitless horizon, the solemnity of an unbroken arch of heaven, the calm and greyness of evening on the lagoons, the pathos of a marble city crumbling to its grave in ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... charm which few men of imagination and address could resist. She, who had lived in the marriage market since she had left school, looked upon love-making as the most serious business of life. To him it was only a pleasant sort of trifling, enhanced by a dash of sadness in the reflection ...

— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw

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