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

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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

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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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