Lexic.us

Definition of Sadness

1. Noun. Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being.

2. Noun. The state of being sad. "She tired of his perpetual sadness"

3. Noun. The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness.

Definition of Sadness

1. n. Heaviness; firmness.

Definition of Sadness

1. Noun. The state or emotion of being sad. ¹

2. Noun. An event in one's life that causes sadness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sadness

1. the state of being sad [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sadness

sadhu sadhus sadi sadic sadiron sadirons sadis sadisms sadist sadistic

sadistically sadists saditty sadly sadness (current term) sadnesses sado sados sadr sads

sadster sadsters

Literary usage of Sadness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"OF BLISS AND MANY HOURS OF sadness The next day was gloomy enough at Blooms-End. Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; ..."

2. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"To assert that sorrow is preferable to mirth, and the house of mourning to the house of feasting; to advise men to choose mortification and sadness when ..."

3. The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1842)
"WE PARTED IN sadness. WE parted in sadness, but spoke not of parting; We talk'd not of hopes that we both must resign, I saw not her eyes, ..."

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