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Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
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sadness
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES tinged with sadness ▪ His voice was tinged with sadness and regret. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE deep ▪ When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness . ▪ It was crying of the deepest sadness . ▪ Everywhere there ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sadness is an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sadness \Sad"ness\, n. Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.] Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] Her sadness and her benignity. --Chaucer. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. ...
Usage examples of sadness.
I know that life is andante and presto and adagio, all entwined, a fugue of sorts, the promise and the sadness often separated by mere moments, tragedy and serenity not nearly so discrete as I once believed.
Cas and Pol were demigods from her vessel brought back to life after twenty-five hundred years, but their sadness in viewing the Agora, the ancient marketplace, was real.
Ulysses someone approached and he came alert, the sadness wafting away like alder down blown by the wind.
This was familiar territory to Alec, and he felt a twinge of sadness as he looked around.
Under any other circumstances, the latter would have tried to dissipate the increasing sadness of the young girl, who said no more to him after he repulsed her amicable anxiety.
This most ludicrous exhibition of the aweful, melancholy, and venerable Johnson, happened well to counteract the feelings of sadness which I used to experience when parting with him for a considerable time.
If I have borne much, and my spirit has worked out its earthly end in travail and in tears, yet I would not forego the lessons which my life has bequeathed me, even though they be deeply blended with sadness and regret.
Worse still, she found it impossible to tear her eyes away from his eyes, which clung to hers with the intensity of a command, willing her to obey, to take note, to listen, then, seeing compliance, gradually softening as if beseeching her pardqn, understanding, and forgiveness and expressing sadness for all that had happened and was about to happen.
To apply the bruised leaves will serve for preventing boils, and the plant, if taken as a sallet with vinegar, is good for sadness of the heart.
All of these, all that man could think of or had thought of long enoughall the madness and the wit, all the buffoonery and the viciousness, all the lightness and the sadness which all men, in all ages, from the cave up to the present moment, had fashioned in their minds were in this very place.
It was near the Exchange, and the neighborhood swarmed with young men who came to dine on the first floor of the house, and did their best to cure me of my sadness, as they called it, though I had not shewn any signs of wishing to be cured.
This was my condition when one day Victoire came to me with sadness on her face, and said that her mother had made up her mind to return to Hanover, as she had lost all hope of getting anything from the English Court.
He alighted, we embraced one another, and I told him, assuming an air of sadness, that he could not leave before me.
As for me, I could not recall what I had done, but I was again overwhelmed with sadness.
I went to bed, but could only think of the indiscretion and sadness of my fair lady.