Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Heaviness; weight; firmness; strength.
- n. Steadiness; steadfastness; constancy.
- n. Seriousness; gravity; discretion; sedateness; sobriety; sober earnest.
- n. The state of being sad or sorrowful; sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind: as, sadness in the remembrance of loss.
- n. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.
- n. Synonyms Grief, Sorrow, etc. (see affliction); despondency, melancholy, depression.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state or emotion of being sad.
- n. countable An event in one's life that causes sadness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Heaviness; firmness.
- n. obsolete Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
- n. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
- n. the state of being sad
- n. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Etymologies
- sad + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For who would willingly speak on these subjects, if as often as we used the term sadness or fear, we should thereby be compelled to be sad or fearful?”
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
“Sure this dusty road has been walked before, but the band are pretty savvy wallowers: They understand their sadness is an American institution and that part of the tragedy of their roots revival is that this heartbreaking music needs to be revived at all.”
Deer Tick at Tractor Tavern: Finger-Plucked-Melodies Worn Down by Melancholy. « PubliCola
“You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice.”
The Huffington Post: Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
“You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled”
“Yet Joe's "sadness" is reserved only for John McCain.”
“Cloture would fail and then Lott would “more in sadness than in anger” withdraw the measure.”
“Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him.”
The Huffington Post: Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
“The only sadness is that Patrick Steptoe has not lived to see this day because it was always a joint team effort," Ledger said.”
“This particular line of revisionism is discredited with anyone who even wants to try and play the game. 9/11 truthers probably have more going for them than “land without a people, people without a land” fantacism. more in sadness Says:”
“Keetha, the sadness is in the middle and the then the book moves quickly on.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sadness’.
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BIOL - the brain
tumor, retina, tremor, arousal, clot, ruptured blood ve..., pressure on a blo..., brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t... and 564 more...
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Dude, you really just need to cheer up
words denoting depression, melancholy or general lack of contentment
melancholy, depression, sadness, sad, accidie, lethargy, apathy, lackluster, topor, careless, unenthused, languid and 1 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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List.001
New word list
imperative, republic, subtle, Androgynous, licentious, auspices, avengeance, cabal, sibilant, Entropy, caduceus, ludicrous, and 170 more...
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zvati's Words
subsume, sadness, atavistic, chaote, sanction, apodyopsis, callipygian, hypnerotomachia, lethonomia, sesquipedalian, weltanschauung, weltschmerz and 48 more...
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reckless-22's list
numb
apathy, poet, my words, numb, smoke, anger, sadness, cut, reckless, abandnment, please, help
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Poetrie: Beginner's Lessons
by Malcolm Alexander
If you wish to be wealthy, duck beneath
the topcoat of a well-dressed river
until you come up with a mossy boot
filled with shiners. Spend them w...easy, laugh out loud, bend it, poem, meteor, lacewing, beware, listen, aria, orchid, voicebox, trace and 45 more...
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Blur of Blue
If sadness were a cloud of words ....
sinking, desolate, forlorn, lost, alone, meek, disheartened, bleak, cold, teary, weep, sadness and 10 more...
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Poetrie: The Book of My Enemy Has Bee...
by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been sei...glad, crystal goblets, champagne, sweet moment, offset, sadness, slight element, merit, marketing error, miscalculated pri..., meted out, chastisement of r... and 59 more...
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love
love love love
sleepless, dreams, restless, heartache, liebe, feelings, thoughts, death, lifeless, sad, sadness, pain and 45 more...
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Things I love
Everything I've ever held an interest in.
Literature, science, Physics, Membrane Theory, String Theory, Relativity, Experimentation, Poetry, expression, art, music, fugue and 26 more...
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Feel
feelings
apathy, numb, reckless, anger, sadness, cut, happiness, different, words, thoughts, help, no one and 21 more...
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Sort of Made-Up Words
And phrases
pick-able-on-able, sneaky like a duck, awkward starfish, confuzzled, absotively, posilutely, fuzzing, cat blech, alphapathetical, sadness, estiguess, beardly and 5 more...
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seasons?
autumn haze, grass, sadness, scribble, awkward, concubine, alchemist, leave, sand, treehouse, clubhouse, treefort and 10 more...
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thug life
selfish, dowdy, stagnant, articulate, amory, blaine, amory blaine, gaudy, advanced, sadness, life, frustration and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sadness.
cricket I say this when things don't go my way over trifles. Like when I realized that commute wouldn't fit on my Words with Method to their Madness list. "Sadness." Mar 2, 2008