'Sadness' definitions:
Definition of 'sadness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn: sadness, unhappiness] [ant: happiness]
noun
The state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" [syn: sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness]
noun
The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness [syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness]
Definition of 'Sadness'
From: GCIDE
- Sadness \Sad"ness\, n.
- 1. Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Her sadness and her benignity. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. [1913 Webster]
- Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sadness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- bale,
- beggarliness,
- bitterness,
- blackishness,
- bleakness,
- bleeding heart,
- blue devils,
- blues,
- broken heart,
- cheapness,
- cheerlessness,
- comfortlessness,
- contemptibleness,
- crumminess,
- crushing,
- darkishness,
- darkness,
- darksomeness,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despicableness,
- despondency,
- dinge,
- discomfort,
- disconsolateness,
- disconsolation,
- dismalness,
- dispiritedness,
- distress,
- distressfulness,
- doldrums,
- dolor,
- downcastness,
- downheartedness,
- downs,
- dreariness,
- dumps,
- duskiness,
- duskness,
- extremity,
- forlornness,
- funereality,
- funk,
- gaudiness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- graveness,
- grief,
- grievousness,
- heartache,
- heavy heart,
- heavyheartedness,
- hopelessness,
- infelicity,
- joylessness,
- lamentability,
- lamentation,
- listlessness,
- meanness,
- megrims,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- meretriciousness,
- meritlessness,
- miserableness,
- misery,
- moodiness,
- mopes,
- mournfulness,
- mourning,
- pain,
- painfulness,
- paltriness,
- pathos,
- pitiability,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- poignancy,
- poorness,
- prostration,
- regrettableness,
- shabbiness,
- sharpness,
- shoddiness,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- somberness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowfulness,
- suds,
- suicidal despair,
- swarth,
- swarthiness,
- swartness,
- unhappiness,
- unworthiness,
- vileness,
- woe,
- woebegoneness,
- woefulness,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness