gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness
(noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
sadness, unhappiness
(noun) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness
(noun) the state of being sad; “she tired of his perpetual sadness”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sadness (countable and uncountable, plural sadnesses)
(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
Synonyms: forlornness, melancholy
(countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
Synonyms: misfortune, woe
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
