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Sorrowfulness

noun
1.
The state of being sad.  Synonyms: sadness, sorrow.
2.
A state of gloomy sorrow.  Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness.





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"Sorrowfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... section is one long wail over the contradictions, the mysteries, the dark end, the infinite sorrowfulness of all existence, and the arcanum of grief which, Luther said, underlies all life. As with Euripides "to live is to die, to die is to live." Haji Abdu borrows the Hindu idea of the human body. "It ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Sorrowfulness" :   unhappiness, sorrowful, sadness, woe, mourning, poignancy, bereavement, woefulness, plaintiveness, poignance


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