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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sadness
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 was a deep sense of sadness.
▪ Rather, Ruskin and Morris threw themselves into so much work, I feel, to escape the deep sadness.
▪ It was, however, obvious that there was some deep sadness within him.
▪ On his face was an expression of deep sadness.
▪ It was a deep sadness to Goebbels that National Socialism had attracted over the years so few people of intellectual quality.
great
▪ As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family, a great sadness filled Beth's heart.
▪ Perhaps despite great sadness to read a few paragraphs of this fascinating moon manuscript.
▪ As he did so, he felt a great sadness, an acute sense of loss, filling his entire being.
▪ And there would be a great sadness if it vanished, because it has become part of feline history.
▪ These will always be situations of great sadness and often pain.
▪ It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live.
▪ It is a great sadness to me, even today, that this was not possible.
▪ Her dark eyes, which seemed almost too large for her small features, held an expression of great sadness.
■ VERB
express
▪ It is this bleakness that Tennyson uses to express sadness and death.
▪ Yet all the while she spoke with me, she never made a sound nor expressed any sadness or regret.
▪ He joined the people of Britain and Ireland in expressing his own sadness at the carnage.
▪ However, she did not feel comfortable in talking to him about this or expressing both her sadness and her anger.
feel
▪ Love flared through her, she felt desire and sadness too because she knew this was a fleeting moment.
▪ There was a moment, I have to admit, when I was overtaken by a feeling of infinite sadness.
▪ When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness.
▪ I felt sadness, despair, and a bitter rage.
▪ She felt an aura of sadness around her like a pall.
▪ He put the box between them and felt a sudden sadness that all the warmth between them had been yanked away.
▪ I feel an aching sadness about Belinda amongst the pine resins and cinnamon smells and the Christmas music.
▪ He feels sadness in objects, in warehouse cartons and blood-soaked clothes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a twinge of guilt/envy/sadness/jealousy etc
▪ Carew felt a twinge of envy.
▪ Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.
▪ Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
silence/a hush/sadness etc falls
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After her death, Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.
▪ Her eyes were full of sadness.
▪ I remembered with great sadness all the friends I had left behind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He writes me about his sadness and loneliness, his hopes and fears, his dreams and plans.
▪ I feel an aching sadness about Belinda amongst the pine resins and cinnamon smells and the Christmas music.
▪ I felt sadness, despair, and a bitter rage.
▪ New thinking on sadness suggests that it is the result of depressed serotonin levels.
▪ The sadness caused the drinking, not the other way around.
▪ There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sadness

Sadness \Sad"ness\, n.

  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 sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.
    --Milton.

    Syn: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sadness

early 14c., "seriousness," from sad + -ness. Meaning "sorrowfulness" is c.1500, perhaps c.1400.

Wiktionary
sadness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or emotion of being sad. 2 (context countable English) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

WordNet
sadness

  1. n. emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn: unhappiness] [ant: happiness]

  2. the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" [syn: sorrow, sorrowfulness]

Wikipedia
Sadness

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. An example of severe sadness is depression. Crying is often an indication of sadness.

Sadness is one of the "six basic emotions" described by Paul Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.

Sadness (video game)

Sadness was a survival horror video game in development by Nibris for the Wii console and was one of the earliest titles announced for the system. While the game initially drew positive attention for its unique gameplay concepts, such as black-and-white graphics and emphasis on psychological horror over violence, Sadness became notorious when no evidence of a playable build was ever publicly released during the four years it spent in development. It was revealed that Sadness had entered development hell due to problems with deadlines and relationships with external developers, leading to its eventual cancellation by 2010, along with the permanent closure of the company.

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.