
sadness
n 1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn:
unhappiness] [ant: happiness]
2: the state of being sad; "she is tired of his perpetual sadness"
[syn: sorrow, sorrowfulness]
Sadness n.
1. Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.]
2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.]
Her sadness and her benignity. .
3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess;
sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial
visages. .
Syn: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection