Broken-heartedness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Broken-heartedness is a noun meaning Alternative form of brokenheartedness.
Meaning
Alternative form of brokenheartedness.
Example Sentences
It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.
Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
The poem uses the metaphor of putting his “heart on a fork,” and anticipates that the process necessarily leads to broken-heartedness and tears.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include heavyheartedness, dead-heartedness, false-heartedness, shallowheartedness, half-heartedness, cruelheartedness.
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