Sadness

Quick meaning: Sadness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

Example Sentences

She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.

The compassion to yourself comes in validating the feelings your inner child is having –– the stress, fear, anger or sadness — and make adult decisions about the best way to move forward, Lev said.

I mean not then under the name of Sadneſs to defend effeminate Bewailings and Lamentations; let them that ſubject themſelves to this weakeſt Impatience, be alſo ſubject to the Lycian Law, that bound theſe kind of Lamenters to be array'd like Women: […]

Word Forms

• sadnesses
• sadnesse

Synonyms for sadness

Depending on context, synonyms include blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection.

Antonyms for sadness

Common opposites include happiness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woe, heartache, grieving.

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