An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SADNESS
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
Etymology
Noun
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
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