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Noun: sadness  sadnus
  1. Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
    - unhappiness
     
  2. The state of being sad
    "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
    - sorrow, sorrowfulness
     
  3. The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
    - gloominess, lugubriousness

Derived forms: sadnesses

See also: sad

Type of: feeling, uncheerfulness, unhappiness

Antonym: happiness

Encyclopedia: Sadness